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HYSTERESIS

10 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What HYSTERESIS Means

  1. noun: the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HYSTERESIS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 Y4 S1 T1 E1 R1 E1 S1 I1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In HYSTERESIS

326 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 (4)

7 letter words (12)

6 letter words (65)

5 letter words (89)

4 letter words (90)

3 letter words (50)

2 letter words (16)

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