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REFORMS

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What REFORMS Means

REFORMS is a form of REFORM, which means:

  1. verb: make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices“reform a political system”
  2. verb: bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one“The Church reformed me”
  3. noun: a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses“justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts”
  4. noun: a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices“the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

REFORMS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 F4 O1 R1 M3 S1.

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

Anagrams of REFORMS (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In REFORMS

98 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.

6 letter words (4)

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (32)

3 letter words (32)

2 letter words (14)

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