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CANCERS

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CANCERS Means

CANCERS is a form of CANCER, which means:

  1. noun: any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CANCERS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 N1 C3 E1 R1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In CANCERS

117 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 (9)

5 letter words (27)

4 letter words (40)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (11)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.