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EXCERPTION

10 letters, 21 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What EXCERPTION Means

  1. noun: a passage selected from a larger work“he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings”
  2. noun: The act of excerpting or selecting from a larger work.“But the phenomenon of excerption can help us create a possible scenario for how the commentary preserved in Berol. 9780, a papyrus from Hermoupolis dating to the second century C.E., was created.”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

EXCERPTION is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 21 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 X8 C3 E1 R1 P3 T1 I1 O1 N1.

Words Made From The Letters In EXCERPTION

456 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.

9 letter words (3)

8 letter words (12)

7 letter words (34)

6 letter words (88)

5 letter words (95)

4 letter words (123)

3 letter words (77)

2 letter words (24)

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