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CIRCUMVENT

10 letters, 19 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CIRCUMVENT Means

  1. verb: surround so as to force to give up“The Turks besieged Vienna”
  2. verb: beat through cleverness and wit“I beat the traffic”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CIRCUMVENT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 I1 R1 C3 U1 M3 V4 E1 N1 T1.

Words Made From The Letters In CIRCUMVENT

285 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.

9 letter words (1)

8 letter words (2)

7 letter words (12)

6 letter words (38)

5 letter words (70)

4 letter words (89)

3 letter words (55)

2 letter words (18)

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