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LOGWOOD

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What LOGWOOD Means

  1. noun: very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye
  2. noun: spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LOGWOOD is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 O1 G2 W4 O1 O1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In LOGWOOD

35 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 (2)

4 letter words (12)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (7)

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