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EMS

3 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What EMS Means

EMS is a form of EM, which means:

  1. noun: a quad with a square body“since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’”
  2. noun: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

EMS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 M3 S1.

Anagrams of EMS (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In EMS

3 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.

2 letter words (3)

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