INFLATION

What INFLATION Means

1. noun: a general and progressive increase in prices“in inflation everything gets more valuable except money”
2. noun: (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

INFLATION is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as I1 N1 F4 L1 A1 T1 I1 O1 N1.

Words Made From The Letters In INFLATION

155 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 (5)

6 letter words (11)

5 letter words (23)

4 letter words (58)

3 letter words (38)

2 letter words (20)

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