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CARDINALS

9 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CARDINALS Means

CARDINALS is a form of CARDINAL, which means:

  1. noun: (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
  2. noun: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
  3. adjective: serving as an essential component“a cardinal rule”
  4. adjective: being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order“cardinal numbers”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CARDINALS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 R1 D2 I1 N1 A1 L1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In CARDINALS

378 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 (22)

6 letter words (54)

5 letter words (103)

4 letter words (120)

3 letter words (59)

2 letter words (16)

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