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CRICKET

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CRICKET Means

  1. noun: leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
  2. noun: a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
  3. verb: play cricket

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CRICKET is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 R1 I1 C3 K5 E1 T1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In CRICKET

63 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 (3)

5 letter words (13)

4 letter words (22)

3 letter words (18)

2 letter words (7)

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