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GUIDELINES

10 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 5 vowels

What GUIDELINES Means

GUIDELINES is a form of GUIDELINE, which means:

  1. noun: a light line that is used in lettering to help align the letters
  2. noun: a detailed plan or explanation to guide you in setting standards or determining a course of action“the president said he had a road map for normalizing relations with Vietnam”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GUIDELINES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 U1 I1 D2 E1 L1 I1 N1 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In GUIDELINES

492 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.

9 letter words (3)

8 letter words (6)

7 letter words (35)

6 letter words (89)

5 letter words (122)

4 letter words (140)

3 letter words (78)

2 letter words (19)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.