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TURFING

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What TURFING Means

TURFING is a form of TURF, which means:

  1. noun: surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
  2. noun: the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own
  3. verb: cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TURFING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 U1 R1 F4 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In TURFING

77 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 (2)

5 letter words (8)

4 letter words (24)

3 letter words (32)

2 letter words (11)

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