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PURPLE

6 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PURPLE Means

  1. noun: a color between red and blue
  2. noun: (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status“he was born to the purple”
  3. adjective: of a color intermediate between red and blue
  4. adjective: excessively elaborate or showily expressed“a writer of empurpled literature”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PURPLE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 U1 R1 P3 L1 E1.

Anagrams of PURPLE (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PURPLE

36 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 (2)

4 letter words (12)

3 letter words (16)

2 letter words (6)

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