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MICROBE

7 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What MICROBE Means

  1. noun: a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MICROBE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 I1 C3 R1 O1 B3 E1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of MICROBE (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In MICROBE

107 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.

6 letter words (4)

5 letter words (15)

4 letter words (38)

3 letter words (35)

2 letter words (15)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.