What PREVENT Means
- verb: keep from happening or arising; make impossible“My sense of tact forbids an honest answer”
- verb: stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state“We must prevent the cancer from spreading”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PREVENT 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 R1 E1 V4 E1 N1 T1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In PREVENT
81 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 (3)
5 letter words (17)
4 letter words (31)
EEVNEREVERNEETENEVENEVEREVETNEEPNETENEVEPEENPEERPENEPENTPEREPERNPERTPERVPREEREENRENTRETETEENTEERTENETERNTREEVEEPVEERVENTVERT
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (8)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.