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DELVING

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What DELVING Means

DELVING is a form of DELVE, which means:

  1. verb: turn up, loosen, or remove earth“Dig we must”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DELVING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 L1 V4 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of DELVING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In DELVING

108 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 (4)

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (40)

3 letter words (38)

2 letter words (10)

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