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POWDER

6 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What POWDER Means

  1. noun: a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized
  2. noun: a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks
  3. verb: make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust“pulverize the grains”
  4. verb: apply powder to“She powdered her nose”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

POWDER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 O1 W4 D2 E1 R1.

Anagrams of POWDER (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In POWDER

73 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 (8)

4 letter words (24)

3 letter words (27)

2 letter words (14)

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