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LAMBASTES

9 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What LAMBASTES Means

LAMBASTES is a form of LAMBAST, which means:

  1. verb: beat with a cane
  2. verb: censure severely or angrily“The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LAMBASTES 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 L1 A1 M3 B3 A1 S1 T1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of LAMBASTES (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In LAMBASTES

407 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 (5)

7 letter words (18)

6 letter words (51)

5 letter words (126)

4 letter words (126)

3 letter words (61)

2 letter words (20)

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