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TORCH

5 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What TORCH Means

  1. noun: a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
  2. noun: tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
  3. verb: burn maliciously, as by arson“The madman torched the barns”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TORCH 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 O1 R1 C3 H4.

Anagrams of TORCH (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In TORCH

22 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 (4)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (5)

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