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TAINT

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What TAINT Means

  1. verb: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon“sully someone's reputation”
  2. verb: contaminate with a disease or microorganism
  3. noun: the state of being contaminated

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TAINT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 A1 I1 N1 T1.

Anagrams of TAINT (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In TAINT

26 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 (6)

3 letter words (12)

2 letter words (8)

Longer Words Containing TAINT

TAINT appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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