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PYRENE

6 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PYRENE Means

  1. noun: a pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar
  2. noun: the small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PYRENE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 Y4 R1 E1 N1 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In PYRENE

51 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 (4)

4 letter words (19)

3 letter words (20)

2 letter words (8)

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