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ELICITS

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ELICITS Means

ELICITS is a form of ELICIT, which means:

  1. verb: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)“arouse pity”
  2. verb: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)“We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ELICITS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 L1 I1 C3 I1 T1 S1.

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 ELICITS

97 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 (6)

5 letter words (18)

4 letter words (36)

3 letter words (27)

2 letter words (10)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.