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LUMPECTOMY

10 letters, 21 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What LUMPECTOMY Means

  1. noun: surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LUMPECTOMY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 21 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 U1 M3 P3 E1 C3 T1 O1 M3 Y4.

Words Made From The Letters In LUMPECTOMY

293 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 (9)

6 letter words (23)

5 letter words (59)

4 letter words (95)

3 letter words (83)

2 letter words (24)

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