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BARNACLES

9 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BARNACLES Means

BARNACLES is a form of BARNACLE, which means:

  1. noun: marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
  2. noun: European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BARNACLES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 R1 N1 A1 C3 L1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of BARNACLES (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BARNACLES

412 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 (13)

6 letter words (52)

5 letter words (132)

4 letter words (127)

3 letter words (66)

2 letter words (18)

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