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PENAL

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PENAL Means

  1. adjective: of or relating to punishment“penal reform”
  2. adjective: serving as or designed to impose punishment“penal servitude”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PENAL 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 N1 A1 L1.

Anagrams of PENAL (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PENAL

41 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 (14)

3 letter words (16)

2 letter words (11)

Longer Words Containing PENAL

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

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