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CANDIDEST

9 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CANDIDEST Means

CANDIDEST is a form of CANDID, which means:

  1. adjective: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion“blunt talking and straight shooting”
  2. adjective: informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared“a candid photograph”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CANDIDEST 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 C3 A1 N1 D2 I1 D2 E1 S1 T1.

Anagrams of CANDIDEST (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In CANDIDEST

508 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 (28)

6 letter words (70)

5 letter words (139)

4 letter words (157)

3 letter words (85)

2 letter words (25)

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