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PINCHED

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PINCHED Means

  1. adjective: sounding as if the nose were pinched“a whining nasal voice”
  2. adjective: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold“a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PINCHED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 I1 N1 C3 H4 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In PINCHED

87 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 (4)

5 letter words (7)

4 letter words (28)

3 letter words (35)

2 letter words (13)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.