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EXCEPTING

9 letters, 21 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What EXCEPTING Means

EXCEPTING is a form of EXCEPT, which means:

  1. verb: object to“he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday”
  2. verb: prevent from being included or considered or accepted“The bad results were excluded from the report”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

EXCEPTING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 21 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 X8 C3 E1 P3 T1 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of EXCEPTING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In EXCEPTING

132 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 (3)

6 letter words (13)

5 letter words (17)

4 letter words (40)

3 letter words (46)

2 letter words (13)

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