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LEAST

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What LEAST Means

  1. noun: something that is of no importance“it is the least I can do”
  2. adjective: the superlative of ‘little’ that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by ‘the’; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree“didn't care the least bit”
  3. adverb: used to form the superlative, smallest in size or degree“The garter snake is the least dangerous snake”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LEAST is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 E1 A1 S1 T1.

Anagrams of LEAST (11)

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

Words Made From The Letters In LEAST

69 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 (30)

3 letter words (27)

2 letter words (12)

Longer Words Containing LEAST

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

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