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FLOAT

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What FLOAT Means

  1. verb: be in motion due to some air or water current“The leaves were blowing in the wind”
  2. verb: be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
  3. noun: the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
  4. noun: the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FLOAT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 L1 O1 A1 T1.

Anagrams of FLOAT (2)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In FLOAT

25 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.

4 letter words (7)

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (8)

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