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LEEWARDS

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What LEEWARDS Means

LEEWARDS is a form of LEEWARD, which means:

  1. noun: the direction in which the wind is blowing
  2. noun: the side of something that is sheltered from the wind
  3. adjective: on the side away from the wind“on the leeward side of the island”
  4. adverb: away from the wind“they were sailing leeward”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LEEWARDS 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 L1 E1 E1 W4 A1 R1 D2 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In LEEWARDS

340 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 (10)

6 letter words (44)

5 letter words (101)

4 letter words (110)

3 letter words (58)

2 letter words (17)

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