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EPIDEMIC

8 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What EPIDEMIC Means

  1. noun: a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
  2. adjective: (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously“an epidemic outbreak of influenza”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

EPIDEMIC is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 P3 I1 D2 E1 M3 I1 C3.

Words Made From The Letters In EPIDEMIC

65 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 (3)

5 letter words (7)

4 letter words (24)

3 letter words (21)

2 letter words (10)

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