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LEEKS

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What LEEKS Means

LEEKS is a form of LEEK, which means:

  1. noun: plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
  2. noun: related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LEEKS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 E1 E1 K5 S1.

Anagrams of LEEKS (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In LEEKS

27 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 (14)

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (3)

Longer Words Containing LEEKS

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

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