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FERMENT

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What FERMENT Means

  1. verb: be in an agitated or excited state“The Middle East is fermenting”
  2. verb: work up into agitation or excitement“This religion is fermenting Africa”
  3. noun: a state of agitation or turbulent change or development“the political ferment produced new leadership”
  4. noun: a substance capable of bringing about fermentation

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FERMENT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 E1 R1 M3 E1 N1 T1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In FERMENT

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.

5 letter words (11)

4 letter words (36)

3 letter words (28)

2 letter words (11)

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