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VEILS

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What VEILS Means

VEILS is a form of VEIL, which means:

  1. noun: a garment that covers the head and face
  2. noun: a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
  3. verb: to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil“women in Afghanistan veil their faces”
  4. verb: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing“a hidden message”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

VEILS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as V4 E1 I1 L1 S1.

Anagrams of VEILS (6)

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

Words Made From The Letters In VEILS

27 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 (12)

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing VEILS

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

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