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FIREBOX

7 letters, 19 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What FIREBOX Means

  1. noun: a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FIREBOX is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 I1 R1 E1 B3 O1 X8.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 69 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In FIREBOX

79 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 (9)

4 letter words (18)

3 letter words (32)

2 letter words (17)

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