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STIFLE

6 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What STIFLE Means

  1. verb: suppress in order to conceal or hide“smother a yawn”
  2. verb: suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity“Stifle your curiosity”
  3. noun: joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

STIFLE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 I1 F4 L1 E1.

Anagrams of STIFLE (4)

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

Words Made From The Letters In STIFLE

101 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 (19)

4 letter words (39)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (13)

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