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GEMINATE

8 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What GEMINATE Means

  1. verb: form by reduplication“The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel”
  2. verb: occur in pairs
  3. noun: a doubled or long consonant“the ‘n’ in ‘thinness’ is a geminate”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GEMINATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 E1 M3 I1 N1 A1 T1 E1.

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