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PRIMARY

7 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PRIMARY Means

  1. noun: a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
  2. noun: one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
  3. adjective: of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary“primary goals”
  4. adjective: not derived from or reducible to something else; basic“a primary instinct”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PRIMARY 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 R1 I1 M3 A1 R1 Y4.

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 PRIMARY

63 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 (5)

4 letter words (18)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (10)

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