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RIFLE

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What RIFLE Means

  1. verb: steal goods; take as spoils“During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”
  2. verb: go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way“Who rifled through my desk drawers?”
  3. noun: a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore“he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

RIFLE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 I1 F4 L1 E1.

Anagrams of RIFLE (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In RIFLE

32 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 (13)

3 letter words (12)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing RIFLE

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

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