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SECONDS

7 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SECONDS Means

SECONDS is a form of SECOND, which means:

  1. noun: 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
  2. noun: an indefinitely short time“wait just a moment”
  3. verb: give support or one's approval to“I'll second that motion”
  4. verb: transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment“The officer was seconded for duty overseas”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SECONDS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 E1 C3 O1 N1 D2 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In SECONDS

116 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 (7)

5 letter words (22)

4 letter words (44)

3 letter words (31)

2 letter words (12)

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