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CRIMPER

7 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CRIMPER Means

  1. noun: someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
  2. noun: a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it“a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CRIMPER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 R1 I1 M3 P3 E1 R1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In CRIMPER

61 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 (2)

5 letter words (10)

4 letter words (22)

3 letter words (20)

2 letter words (7)

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