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PYRENES

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What PYRENES Means

PYRENES is a form of PYRENE, which 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

PYRENES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 Y4 R1 E1 N1 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.