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CRENELS

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CRENELS Means

CRENELS is a form of CRENEL, which means:

  1. noun: one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
  2. noun: a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement
  3. verb: supply with battlements

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CRENELS 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 R1 E1 N1 E1 L1 S1.

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

Words Made From The Letters In CRENELS

82 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 (8)

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (29)

3 letter words (22)

2 letter words (7)

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