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INTERCEPT

9 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What INTERCEPT Means

  1. verb: seize on its way“The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace”
  2. verb: tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information“The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy”
  3. noun: the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

INTERCEPT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as I1 N1 T1 E1 R1 C3 E1 P3 T1.

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