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GESTATION

9 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What GESTATION Means

  1. noun: the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)
  2. noun: the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GESTATION is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 E1 S1 T1 A1 T1 I1 O1 N1.

Words Made From The Letters In GESTATION

529 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 (6)

7 letter words (36)

6 letter words (63)

5 letter words (125)

4 letter words (170)

3 letter words (99)

2 letter words (30)

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