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CAUSE

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CAUSE Means

  1. noun: events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something“they are trying to determine the cause of the crash”
  2. noun: a justification for something existing or happening“he had no cause to complain”
  3. verb: give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally“cause a commotion”
  4. verb: cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner“The ads induced me to buy a VCR”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CAUSE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 U1 S1 E1.

Anagrams of CAUSE (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In CAUSE

25 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.

4 letter words (7)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing CAUSE

CAUSE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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