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MODAL

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What MODAL Means

  1. adjective: relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution“the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30”
  2. adjective: of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
  3. noun: an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MODAL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 O1 D2 A1 L1.

Anagrams of MODAL (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In MODAL

34 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 (7)

3 letter words (16)

2 letter words (11)

Longer Words Containing MODAL

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

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