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THULIUM

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What THULIUM Means

  1. noun: a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

THULIUM is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 H4 U1 L1 I1 U1 M3.

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 THULIUM

34 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 (1)

5 letter words (1)

4 letter words (7)

3 letter words (15)

2 letter words (10)

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