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PIONEER

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What PIONEER Means

  1. verb: open up an area or prepare a way“She pioneered a graduate program for women students”
  2. verb: take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of“This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants”
  3. noun: someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
  4. noun: one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory“they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PIONEER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 I1 O1 N1 E1 E1 R1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of PIONEER (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PIONEER

105 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 (10)

5 letter words (12)

4 letter words (35)

3 letter words (32)

2 letter words (16)

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