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PLAGUE

6 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What PLAGUE Means

  1. noun: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
  2. noun: any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  3. verb: cause to suffer a blight“Too much rain may blight the garden with mold”
  4. verb: annoy continually or chronically“He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PLAGUE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 L1 A1 G2 U1 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In PLAGUE

67 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 (24)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (11)

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