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FASTIDIOUS

10 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 5 vowels

What FASTIDIOUS Means

  1. adjective: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness“a fastidious and incisive intellect”
  2. adjective: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures“fastidious microorganisms”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FASTIDIOUS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 A1 S1 T1 I1 D2 I1 O1 U1 S1.

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