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GHETTOS

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GHETTOS Means

GHETTOS is a form of GHETTO, which means:

  1. noun: formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live“the Warsaw ghetto”
  2. noun: any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping“the relative security of the gay ghetto”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GHETTOS 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 G2 H4 E1 T1 T1 O1 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 GHETTOS

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 (2)

5 letter words (13)

4 letter words (37)

3 letter words (32)

2 letter words (14)

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