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DENSE

5 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What DENSE Means

  1. adjective: permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter“dense smoke”
  2. adjective: hard to pass through because of dense growth“dense vegetation”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DENSE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 N1 S1 E1.

Anagrams of DENSE (4)

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

Words Made From The Letters In DENSE

33 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.

4 letter words (15)

3 letter words (12)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing DENSE

DENSE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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