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FERRET

6 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What FERRET Means

  1. verb: hound or harry relentlessly
  2. verb: hunt with ferrets
  3. noun: musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
  4. noun: domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FERRET is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 E1 R1 R1 E1 T1.

Words Made From The Letters In FERRET

38 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 (6)

4 letter words (13)

3 letter words (12)

2 letter words (7)

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