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GAUNT

5 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GAUNT Means

  1. adjective: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold“a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GAUNT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 A1 U1 N1 T1.

Words Made From The Letters In GAUNT

35 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.

4 letter words (9)

3 letter words (16)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing GAUNT

GAUNT appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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