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FORTIFY

7 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What FORTIFY Means

  1. verb: make strong or stronger“This exercise will strengthen your upper body”
  2. verb: enclose by or as if by a fortification

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FORTIFY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 O1 R1 T1 I1 F4 Y4.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In FORTIFY

50 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.

5 letter words (5)

4 letter words (17)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (11)

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