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CEASE

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CEASE Means

  1. verb: put an end to a state or an activity“Quit teasing your little brother”
  2. verb: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical“the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed”
  3. noun: (‘cease’ is a noun only in the phrase ‘without cease’) end

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CEASE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 E1 A1 S1 E1.

Anagrams of CEASE (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In CEASE

19 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 (6)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing CEASE

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

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