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SNAIL

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SNAIL Means

  1. noun: freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
  2. noun: edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
  3. verb: gather snails“We went snailing in the summer”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SNAIL 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 N1 A1 I1 L1.

Anagrams of SNAIL (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SNAIL

40 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 (17)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing SNAIL

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

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