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YAWLING

7 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What YAWLING Means

YAWLING is a form of YAWL, which means:

  1. noun: a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars)
  2. noun: a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
  3. verb: emit long loud cries“wail in self-pity”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

YAWLING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as Y4 A1 W4 L1 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In YAWLING

98 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 (7)

5 letter words (17)

4 letter words (30)

3 letter words (31)

2 letter words (13)

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