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BACILLUS

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BACILLUS Means

  1. noun: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BACILLUS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 C3 I1 L1 L1 U1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In BACILLUS

110 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 (8)

5 letter words (23)

4 letter words (38)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (11)

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