What PALAVER Means
- verb: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- verb: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering“He palavered her into going along”
- noun: flattery intended to persuade
- noun: loud and confused and empty talk“mere rhetoric”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PALAVER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 A1 L1 A1 V4 E1 R1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In PALAVER
100 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 (2)
5 letter words (19)
4 letter words (39)
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3 letter words (29)
2 letter words (11)
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