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FISSILE

7 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What FISSILE Means

  1. adjective: capable of undergoing nuclear fission“a fissionable nucleus”
  2. adjective: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain“fissile crystals”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FISSILE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 I1 S1 S1 I1 L1 E1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In FISSILE

53 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 (1)

5 letter words (10)

4 letter words (18)

3 letter words (16)

2 letter words (8)

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