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ZERO

4 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What ZERO Means

  1. noun: a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential“it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”
  2. noun: a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
  3. adjective: indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration“a zero score”
  4. adjective: having no measurable or otherwise determinable value“the goal is zero population growth”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ZERO is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as Z10 E1 R1 O1.

Words Made From The Letters In ZERO

9 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.

3 letter words (4)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing ZERO

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

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