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GNOMES

6 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GNOMES Means

GNOMES is a form of GNOME, which means:

  1. noun: a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
  2. noun: a short pithy saying expressing a general truth

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GNOMES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 N1 O1 M3 E1 S1.

Anagrams of GNOMES (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In GNOMES

87 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 (32)

3 letter words (33)

2 letter words (13)

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