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CLEANSING

9 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CLEANSING Means

  1. adjective: cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands“ablutionary rituals”
  2. adjective: acting like an antiseptic
  3. noun: the act of making something clean“he gave his shoes a good cleaning”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CLEANSING 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 C3 L1 E1 A1 N1 S1 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of CLEANSING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In CLEANSING

418 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 (6)

7 letter words (35)

6 letter words (64)

5 letter words (100)

4 letter words (127)

3 letter words (68)

2 letter words (18)

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