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DEFILING

8 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What DEFILING Means

DEFILING is a form of DEFILE, which means:

  1. verb: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon“sully someone's reputation”
  2. verb: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically“The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air”
  3. noun: a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DEFILING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 F4 I1 L1 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of DEFILING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In DEFILING

130 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 (4)

6 letter words (8)

5 letter words (20)

4 letter words (42)

3 letter words (43)

2 letter words (13)

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