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FOLIATE

7 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What FOLIATE Means

  1. verb: hammer into thin flat foils“foliate metal”
  2. verb: decorate with leaves
  3. adjective: ornamented with foliage or foils“foliate tracery”
  4. adjective: (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves“‘foliate’ is combined with the prefix ‘tri’ to form the word ‘trifoliate’”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FOLIATE 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 O1 L1 I1 A1 T1 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 FOLIATE

130 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 (13)

4 letter words (50)

3 letter words (41)

2 letter words (23)

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