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GROWING

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GROWING Means

  1. noun: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level“he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children”
  2. noun: (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
  3. adjective: relating to or suitable for growth“the growing season for corn”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GROWING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 R1 O1 W4 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In GROWING

65 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 (9)

4 letter words (24)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (10)

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