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PINCH

5 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What PINCH Means

  1. noun: a painful or straitened circumstance“the pinch of the recession”
  2. noun: an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
  3. verb: squeeze tightly between the fingers“He pinched her behind”
  4. verb: make ridges into by pinching together

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PINCH is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 I1 N1 C3 H4.

Words Made From The Letters In PINCH

16 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 (3)

3 letter words (9)

2 letter words (4)

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