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LAXER

5 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What LAXER Means

LAXER is a form of LAX, which means:

  1. adjective: lacking in rigor or strictness“such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable”
  2. adjective: pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘bet’)

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LAXER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 A1 X8 E1 R1.

Anagrams of LAXER (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In LAXER

30 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 (9)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing LAXER

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

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