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MIDDLES

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What MIDDLES Means

MIDDLES is a form of MIDDLE, which means:

  1. noun: an area that is approximately central within some larger region“it is in the center of town”
  2. noun: an intermediate part or section“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end”
  3. adjective: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series“adolescence is an awkward in-between age”
  4. adjective: equally distant from the extremes

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MIDDLES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 I1 D2 D2 L1 E1 S1.

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 MIDDLES

111 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 (8)

5 letter words (22)

4 letter words (39)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (12)

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