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TEMPER

6 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What TEMPER Means

  1. verb: bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling“temper glass”
  2. verb: harden by reheating and cooling in oil“temper steel”
  3. noun: a sudden outburst of anger“his temper sparked like damp firewood”
  4. noun: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling“whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TEMPER 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 T1 E1 M3 P3 E1 R1.

Words Made From The Letters In TEMPER

47 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 (7)

4 letter words (18)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (8)

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