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PURISM

6 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PURISM Means

  1. noun: scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)“linguistic purisms”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PURISM is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 U1 R1 I1 S1 M3.

Anagrams of PURISM (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PURISM

67 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 (26)

2 letter words (9)

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