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PINION

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What PINION Means

  1. noun: a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
  2. noun: any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
  3. verb: bind the arms of
  4. verb: cut the wings off (of birds)

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PINION is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 I1 N1 I1 O1 N1.

Words Made From The Letters In PINION

18 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.

5 letter words (2)

4 letter words (2)

3 letter words (6)

2 letter words (8)

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