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PUZZLE

6 letters, 26 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PUZZLE Means

  1. noun: a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution“he loved to solve chessmate puzzles”
  2. noun: a game that tests your ingenuity
  3. verb: be a mystery or bewildering to“This beats me!”
  4. verb: be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide“We puzzled over her sudden departure”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PUZZLE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 26 in Scrabble and 28 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 U1 Z10 Z10 L1 E1.

Anagrams of PUZZLE (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PUZZLE

18 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 (1)

4 letter words (3)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (3)

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