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GIZMO

5 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GIZMO Means

  1. noun: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known“she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket”
  2. noun: a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GIZMO is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 I1 Z10 M3 O1.

Words Made From The Letters In GIZMO

15 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 (7)

2 letter words (8)

Longer Words Containing GIZMO

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

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