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GROOVES

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What GROOVES Means

GROOVES is a form of GROOVE, which means:

  1. noun: a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
  2. noun: a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape“they fell into a conversational rut”
  3. verb: make a groove in, or provide with a groove“groove a vinyl record”
  4. verb: hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove“furrow soil”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GROOVES 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 R1 O1 O1 V4 E1 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 GROOVES

90 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 (3)

5 letter words (17)

4 letter words (31)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (9)

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