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SCHOOLS

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SCHOOLS Means

SCHOOLS is a form of SCHOOL, which means:

  1. noun: an educational institution“the school was founded in 1900”
  2. noun: a building where young people receive education“the school was built in 1932”
  3. verb: educate in or as if in a school“The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions”
  4. verb: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment“Cultivate your musical taste”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SCHOOLS 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 S1 C3 H4 O1 O1 L1 S1.

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

Words Made From The Letters In SCHOOLS

61 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 (5)

5 letter words (10)

4 letter words (21)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (8)

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