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CHICKEN

7 letters, 18 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CHICKEN Means

  1. noun: the flesh of a chicken used for food
  2. noun: a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
  3. adjective: easily frightened

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CHICKEN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 H4 I1 C3 K5 E1 N1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 68 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In CHICKEN

43 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 (6)

4 letter words (12)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (8)

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