What KERNELS Means
KERNELS is a form of KERNEL, which means:
- 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”
- noun: a single whole grain of a cereal“a kernel of corn”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
KERNELS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as K5 E1 R1 N1 E1 L1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In KERNELS
106 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 (25)
ERNESESKERKEELSKEENSKERELKERNEKERNSKNEELKNEESLEEKSLEERSLENESLENSELERESNERKSREEKSREELSREENSREKESSKEENSKEERSKENESLEEKSLEERSNEER
4 letter words (44)
EELSEKESELKSELSEENESERESERKSERNEERNSESNEKEELKEENKENSKERNKNEELEEKLEERLEESLEKELEKSLENSLERENEKSNERKREEKREELREENREESREKERENKRENSSEEKSEELSEENSEERSELESENESERESERKSKEESKENSKERSLEESNEE
3 letter words (25)
2 letter words (7)
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