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KERNEL

6 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What KERNEL Means

  1. noun: the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone“black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell”
  2. noun: a single whole grain of a cereal“a kernel of corn”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

KERNEL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as K5 E1 R1 N1 E1 L1.

Words Made From The Letters In KERNEL

40 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.

5 letter words (3)

4 letter words (15)

3 letter words (16)

2 letter words (6)

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