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EPICYCLE

8 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What EPICYCLE Means

  1. noun: a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

EPICYCLE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 P3 I1 C3 Y4 C3 L1 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In EPICYCLE

60 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.

6 letter words (2)

5 letter words (9)

4 letter words (19)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (6)

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