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FORGOES

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What FORGOES Means

FORGOES is a form of FORGO, which means:

  1. verb: do without or cease to hold or adhere to“We are dispensing with formalities”
  2. verb: be earlier in time; go back further“Stone tools precede bronze tools”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FORGOES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 O1 R1 G2 O1 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In FORGOES

108 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 (4)

5 letter words (21)

4 letter words (36)

3 letter words (35)

2 letter words (12)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.