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PURSE

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PURSE Means

  1. noun: a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)“she reached into her bag and found a comb”
  2. noun: a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse“he made the contribution out of his own purse”
  3. verb: contract one's lips into a rounded shape
  4. verb: gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker“purse one's lips”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PURSE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 U1 R1 S1 E1.

Anagrams of PURSE (5)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PURSE

38 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 (14)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing PURSE

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

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