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POLYOMA

7 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What POLYOMA Means

  1. noun: a virus that can initiate various kinds of tumors in mice

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

POLYOMA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 O1 L1 Y4 O1 M3 A1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In POLYOMA

83 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 (28)

3 letter words (32)

2 letter words (16)

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