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FALTERED

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What FALTERED Means

FALTERED is a form of FALTER, which means:

  1. verb: be unsure or weak“Their enthusiasm is faltering”
  2. verb: move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
  3. noun: the act of pausing uncertainly“there was a hesitation in his speech”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FALTERED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 A1 L1 T1 E1 R1 E1 D2.

Anagrams of FALTERED (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In FALTERED

278 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 (9)

6 letter words (36)

5 letter words (63)

4 letter words (95)

3 letter words (55)

2 letter words (20)

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