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LICENCE

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What LICENCE Means

  1. noun: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint“when liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near”
  2. noun: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
  3. verb: authorize officially“I am licensed to practice law in this state”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LICENCE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 I1 C3 E1 N1 C3 E1.

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 LICENCE

31 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 (9)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (6)

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