What ESSENCE Means
- noun: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience“the gist of the prosecutor's argument”
- noun: any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ESSENCE 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 S1 S1 E1 N1 C3 E1.
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 ESSENCE
39 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 (3)
5 letter words (8)
4 letter words (15)
3 letter words (9)
2 letter words (4)
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