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DUSTS

5 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What DUSTS Means

DUSTS is a form of DUST, which means:

  1. verb: remove the dust from“dust the cabinets”
  2. verb: rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape“The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image”
  3. noun: fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air“the furniture was covered with dust”
  4. noun: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DUSTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 U1 S1 T1 S1.

Anagrams of DUSTS (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In DUSTS

10 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 (3)

3 letter words (4)

2 letter words (3)

Longer Words Containing DUSTS

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

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