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OUNCE

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What OUNCE Means

  1. noun: a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound
  2. noun: a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

OUNCE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 U1 N1 C3 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In OUNCE

18 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 (4)

3 letter words (6)

2 letter words (8)

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