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AFFERENTS

9 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What AFFERENTS Means

AFFERENTS is a form of AFFERENT, which means:

  1. noun: a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
  2. adjective: of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS“afferent nerves”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

AFFERENTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 F4 F4 E1 R1 E1 N1 T1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In AFFERENTS

394 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.

8 letter words (4)

7 letter words (12)

6 letter words (56)

5 letter words (109)

4 letter words (122)

3 letter words (71)

2 letter words (20)

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