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SWEEP

5 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SWEEP Means

  1. verb: sweep across or over“Her long skirt brushed the floor”
  2. verb: move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions“The diva swept into the room”
  3. noun: a wide scope“the sweep of the plains”
  4. noun: someone who cleans soot from chimneys

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SWEEP is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 W4 E1 E1 P3.

Anagrams of SWEEP (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SWEEP

19 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 (8)

3 letter words (7)

2 letter words (4)

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