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CHEESE

6 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CHEESE Means

  1. noun: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
  2. noun: erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
  3. verb: used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)“Cheese it!”
  4. verb: wind onto a cheese“cheese the yarn”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CHEESE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 H4 E1 E1 S1 E1.

Anagrams of CHEESE (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In CHEESE

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.

5 letter words (1)

4 letter words (4)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (6)

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