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AMALGAMS

8 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What AMALGAMS Means

AMALGAMS is a form of AMALGAM, which means:

  1. noun: an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
  2. noun: a combination or blend of diverse things“his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

AMALGAMS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 M3 A1 L1 G2 A1 M3 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In AMALGAMS

85 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.

7 letter words (2)

6 letter words (7)

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (30)

3 letter words (22)

2 letter words (8)

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