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WAIST

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WAIST Means

  1. noun: the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips
  2. noun: the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WAIST 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 W4 A1 I1 S1 T1.

Anagrams of WAIST (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In WAIST

43 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 (14)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing WAIST

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

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