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INTUMESCE

9 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What INTUMESCE Means

  1. verb: move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically“Gases bubbled up from the earth”
  2. verb: expand abnormally“The bellies of the starving children are swelling”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

INTUMESCE 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 U1 M3 E1 S1 C3 E1.

Anagrams of INTUMESCE (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In INTUMESCE

354 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 (2)

7 letter words (14)

6 letter words (40)

5 letter words (98)

4 letter words (114)

3 letter words (65)

2 letter words (21)

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