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PELTS

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What PELTS Means

PELTS is a form of PELT, which means:

  1. verb: cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile“They pelted each other with snowballs”
  2. verb: attack and bombard with or as if with missiles“pelt the speaker with questions”
  3. noun: the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  4. noun: body covering of a living animal

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PELTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 E1 L1 T1 S1.

Anagrams of PELTS (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PELTS

33 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 (13)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing PELTS

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

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