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JUNIPER

7 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What JUNIPER Means

  1. noun: desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista
  2. noun: wood of a coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

JUNIPER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 U1 N1 I1 P3 E1 R1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In JUNIPER

72 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 (19)

3 letter words (29)

2 letter words (11)

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