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FOULING

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What FOULING Means

FOULING is a form of FOUL, which means:

  1. adjective: offensively malodorous“a foul odor”
  2. adjective: violating accepted standards or rules“a dirty fighter”
  3. verb: hit a foul ball
  4. verb: make impure“The industrial wastes polluted the lake”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FOULING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 O1 U1 L1 I1 N1 G2.

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 FOULING

79 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 (2)

5 letter words (11)

4 letter words (22)

3 letter words (28)

2 letter words (16)

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