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HERPESES

8 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What HERPESES Means

HERPESES is a form of HERPES, which means:

  1. noun: viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane
  2. noun: any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HERPESES 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 H4 E1 R1 P3 E1 S1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of HERPESES (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In HERPESES

95 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.

7 letter words (4)

6 letter words (15)

5 letter words (23)

4 letter words (26)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (8)

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