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ORIGINS

7 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ORIGINS Means

ORIGINS is a form of ORIGIN, which means:

  1. noun: the place where something begins, where it springs into being“the Italian beginning of the Renaissance”
  2. noun: properties attributable to your ancestry“he comes from good origins”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ORIGINS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 R1 I1 G2 I1 N1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 58 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of ORIGINS (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In ORIGINS

91 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 (9)

5 letter words (14)

4 letter words (31)

3 letter words (25)

2 letter words (12)

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