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CRESCENDO

9 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CRESCENDO Means

  1. noun: (music) a gradual increase in loudness
  2. verb: grow louder“The music crescendoes here”
  3. adjective: (music) gradually increasing in volume

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CRESCENDO is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 R1 E1 S1 C3 E1 N1 D2 O1.

Anagrams of CRESCENDO (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In CRESCENDO

332 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 (17)

6 letter words (51)

5 letter words (91)

4 letter words (96)

3 letter words (55)

2 letter words (16)

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