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WINNOW

6 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WINNOW Means

  1. verb: separate the chaff from grain by using air currents“She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field”
  2. verb: blow on“The wind was winnowing her hair”
  3. noun: the act of separating grain from chaff“the winnowing was done by women”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WINNOW is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 I1 N1 N1 O1 W4.

Words Made From The Letters In WINNOW

19 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 (8)

2 letter words (7)

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