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JOKER

5 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What JOKER Means

  1. noun: a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
  2. noun: a person who does something thoughtless or annoying“some joker is blocking the driveway”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

JOKER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 O1 K5 E1 R1.

Words Made From The Letters In JOKER

20 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.

4 letter words (5)

3 letter words (9)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing JOKER

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

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