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PRISM

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What PRISM Means

  1. noun: a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
  2. noun: optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PRISM is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 R1 I1 S1 M3.

Anagrams of PRISM (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PRISM

28 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.

4 letter words (11)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing PRISM

PRISM appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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