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SPOIL

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SPOIL Means

  1. verb: make a mess of, destroy or ruin“I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”
  2. verb: become unfit for consumption or use“the meat must be eaten before it spoils”
  3. noun: (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)“to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy”
  4. noun: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it“her spoiling my dress was deliberate”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SPOIL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 P3 O1 I1 L1.

Anagrams of SPOIL (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SPOIL

41 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 (11)

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