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HUMOURS

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What HUMOURS Means

HUMOURS is a form of HUMOUR, which means:

  1. noun: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling“whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time”
  2. noun: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
  3. verb: put into a good mood

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HUMOURS 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 H4 U1 M3 O1 U1 R1 S1.

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 HUMOURS

79 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 (5)

5 letter words (8)

4 letter words (27)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (15)

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