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COMPLEX

7 letters, 20 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What COMPLEX Means

  1. noun: a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts“the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town”
  2. noun: a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
  3. adjective: complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts“a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody”
  4. adjective: difficult to analyze or understand“a complicated problem”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

COMPLEX is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 20 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 O1 M3 P3 L1 E1 X8.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 70 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In COMPLEX

56 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.

6 letter words (1)

5 letter words (2)

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (25)

2 letter words (12)

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