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IRIDESCENT

10 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What IRIDESCENT Means

  1. adjective: varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles“changeable taffeta”
  2. adjective: having a play of lustrous rainbow colors“an iridescent oil slick”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

IRIDESCENT 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 I1 R1 I1 D2 E1 S1 C3 E1 N1 T1.

Anagrams of IRIDESCENT (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In IRIDESCENT

725 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.

9 letter words (8)

8 letter words (35)

7 letter words (94)

6 letter words (164)

5 letter words (185)

4 letter words (156)

3 letter words (65)

2 letter words (18)

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