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TOPIARY

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What TOPIARY Means

  1. noun: a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals
  2. noun: making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TOPIARY 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 O1 P3 I1 A1 R1 Y4.

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 TOPIARY

132 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 (17)

4 letter words (50)

3 letter words (46)

2 letter words (18)

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