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TENOR

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What TENOR Means

  1. noun: the adult male singing voice above baritone
  2. noun: the pitch range of the highest male voice
  3. adjective: (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass“a tenor sax”
  4. adjective: of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice“tenor voice”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TENOR 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 E1 N1 O1 R1.

Anagrams of TENOR (4)

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

Words Made From The Letters In TENOR

39 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 (11)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (11)

Longer Words Containing TENOR

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

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