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GIRDLE

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GIRDLE Means

  1. noun: an encircling or ringlike structure
  2. noun: a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
  3. verb: cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients“girdle the plant”
  4. verb: put a girdle on or around“gird your loins”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GIRDLE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 I1 R1 D2 L1 E1.

Anagrams of GIRDLE (5)

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

Words Made From The Letters In GIRDLE

68 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 (9)

4 letter words (25)

3 letter words (25)

2 letter words (9)

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