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FORMERS

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What FORMERS Means

FORMERS is a form of FORMER, which means:

  1. adjective: referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several)“the novel was made into a film in 1943 and again in 1967; I prefer the former version to the latter one”
  2. adjective: belonging to some prior time“erstwhile friend”
  3. noun: the first of two or the first mentioned of two“Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the former is remembered today”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FORMERS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 O1 R1 M3 E1 R1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of FORMERS (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In FORMERS

98 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 (16)

4 letter words (32)

3 letter words (32)

2 letter words (14)

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