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CLEANSE

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CLEANSE Means

  1. verb: clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing“clean up before you see your grandparents”
  2. verb: purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins“Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CLEANSE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 L1 E1 A1 N1 S1 E1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of CLEANSE (3)

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

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