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HEREDITARY

10 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What HEREDITARY Means

  1. adjective: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity“an inherited disease”
  2. adjective: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent“ancestral home”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HEREDITARY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 E1 R1 E1 D2 I1 T1 A1 R1 Y4.

Words Made From The Letters In HEREDITARY

470 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 (2)

8 letter words (8)

7 letter words (27)

6 letter words (75)

5 letter words (118)

4 letter words (132)

3 letter words (81)

2 letter words (27)

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