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DREADER

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What DREADER Means

DREADER is a form of DREAD, which means:

  1. noun: fearful expectation or anticipation“the student looked around the examination room with apprehension”
  2. verb: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of“I fear the winters in Moscow”
  3. adjective: causing fear or dread or terror“the awful war”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DREADER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 R1 E1 A1 D2 E1 R1.

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 DREADER

73 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 (12)

5 letter words (20)

4 letter words (18)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (10)

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