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EXPENSES

8 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What EXPENSES Means

EXPENSES is a form of EXPENSE, which means:

  1. noun: amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
  2. noun: a detriment or sacrifice“at the expense of”
  3. verb: reduce the estimated value of something“For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

EXPENSES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 X8 P3 E1 N1 S1 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In EXPENSES

54 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 (2)

6 letter words (3)

5 letter words (11)

4 letter words (21)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (6)

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