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FILTERING

9 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What FILTERING Means

FILTERING is a form of FILTER, which means:

  1. verb: remove by passing through a filter“filter out the impurities”
  2. verb: pass through“Water permeates sand easily”
  3. noun: device that removes something from whatever passes through it
  4. noun: an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FILTERING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 I1 L1 T1 E1 R1 I1 N1 G2.

Words Made From The Letters In FILTERING

277 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.

8 letter words (10)

7 letter words (21)

6 letter words (39)

5 letter words (55)

4 letter words (80)

3 letter words (57)

2 letter words (15)

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