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SPUDDED

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SPUDDED Means

SPUDDED is a form of SPUD, which means:

  1. noun: an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
  2. noun: a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
  3. verb: initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum“The well was spudded in April”
  4. verb: produce buds, branches, or germinate“the potatoes sprouted”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SPUDDED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 P3 U1 D2 D2 E1 D2.

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 SPUDDED

43 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.

5 letter words (6)

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (15)

2 letter words (6)

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