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EXCUSING

8 letters, 18 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What EXCUSING Means

EXCUSING is a form of EXCUSE, which means:

  1. verb: accept an excuse for“Please excuse my dirty hands”
  2. verb: grant exemption or release to“Please excuse me from this class”
  3. noun: a note explaining an absence“he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him”
  4. noun: a poor example“it was an apology for a meal”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

EXCUSING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 X8 C3 U1 S1 I1 N1 G2.

Words Made From The Letters In EXCUSING

114 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 (1)

6 letter words (6)

5 letter words (20)

4 letter words (34)

3 letter words (38)

2 letter words (15)

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