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WHISKER

7 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WHISKER Means

  1. noun: a very small distance or space“they escaped by a hair's breadth”
  2. noun: a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
  3. verb: furnish with whiskers“a whiskered jersey”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WHISKER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 H4 I1 S1 K5 E1 R1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 67 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In WHISKER

111 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 (5)

5 letter words (25)

4 letter words (41)

3 letter words (29)

2 letter words (11)

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