What CALICHE Means
- noun: crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
- noun: nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CALICHE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 L1 I1 C3 H4 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of CALICHE (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CALICHE
72 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (5)
5 letter words (12)
4 letter words (22)
3 letter words (20)
2 letter words (13)
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