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BROODING

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BROODING Means

  1. noun: sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
  2. noun: persistent morbid meditation on a problem
  3. adjective: deeply or seriously thoughtful“Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the ‘Byronic hero’ - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BROODING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 R1 O1 O1 D2 I1 N1 G2.

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