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ADEQUACY

8 letters, 23 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What ADEQUACY Means

  1. noun: the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:
  2. noun: the quality of being sufficient for the end in view“he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ADEQUACY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 23 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 D2 E1 Q10 U1 A1 C3 Y4.

Words Made From The Letters In ADEQUACY

53 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 (2)

5 letter words (5)

4 letter words (13)

3 letter words (22)

2 letter words (11)

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