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ASPIRATE

8 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What ASPIRATE Means

  1. verb: remove by suction“aspirate the wound”
  2. verb: pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds
  3. noun: a consonant pronounced with aspiration
  4. noun: a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds.“The ‘p’ in English ‘pot’ is an aspirate, but the ‘p’ in ‘spot’ is not.”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ASPIRATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 S1 P3 I1 R1 A1 T1 E1.

Anagrams of ASPIRATE (2)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In ASPIRATE

421 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 (15)

6 letter words (54)

5 letter words (134)

4 letter words (124)

3 letter words (73)

2 letter words (21)

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