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ESSAYED

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ESSAYED Means

ESSAYED is a form of ESSAY, which means:

  1. noun: an analytic or interpretive literary composition
  2. noun: a tentative attempt
  3. verb: make an effort or attempt“He tried to shake off his fears”
  4. verb: put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to“This approach has been tried with good results”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ESSAYED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 S1 S1 A1 Y4 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In ESSAYED

86 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 (4)

5 letter words (17)

4 letter words (28)

3 letter words (25)

2 letter words (12)

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