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PILAU

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What PILAU Means

  1. noun: rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PILAU 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 P3 I1 L1 A1 U1.

Words Made From The Letters In PILAU

24 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 (7)

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing PILAU

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

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