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COUSCOUS

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What COUSCOUS Means

  1. noun: a spicy dish that originated in northern Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew
  2. noun: a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

COUSCOUS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 O1 U1 S1 C3 O1 U1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In COUSCOUS

26 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.

7 letter words (1)

6 letter words (3)

5 letter words (2)

4 letter words (7)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (5)

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