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GILT

4 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What GILT Means

  1. noun: a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
  2. adjective: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold“long aureate (or golden) hair”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GILT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 I1 L1 T1.

Anagrams of GILT (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In GILT

9 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.

3 letter words (5)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing GILT

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

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