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SQUINCH

7 letters, 21 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SQUINCH Means

  1. verb: crouch down
  2. verb: draw back, as with fear or pain“she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”
  3. noun: a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SQUINCH is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 21 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 Q10 U1 I1 N1 C3 H4.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 71 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In SQUINCH

58 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 (5)

4 letter words (21)

3 letter words (21)

2 letter words (11)

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