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SELLS

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What SELLS Means

SELLS is a form of SELL, which means:

  1. verb: exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent“He sold his house in January”
  2. verb: be sold at a certain price or in a certain way“These books sell like hot cakes”
  3. noun: the activity of persuading someone to buy“it was a hard sell”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SELLS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 E1 L1 L1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In SELLS

11 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 (4)

3 letter words (5)

2 letter words (2)

Longer Words Containing SELLS

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

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