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POISON

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What POISON Means

  1. verb: spoil as if by poison“poison someone's mind”
  2. verb: kill with poison“She poisoned her husband”
  3. noun: any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
  4. noun: anything that harms or destroys“the poison of fascism”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

POISON 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 O1 I1 S1 O1 N1.

Words Made From The Letters In POISON

60 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 (7)

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (13)

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