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TEMPTED

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What TEMPTED Means

TEMPTED is a form of TEMPT, which means:

  1. verb: dispose or incline or entice to“We were tempted by the delicious-looking food”
  2. verb: provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion“He lured me into temptation”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TEMPTED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 E1 M3 P3 T1 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In TEMPTED

40 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.

6 letter words (3)

5 letter words (4)

4 letter words (14)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (8)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.