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MELTDOWN

8 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What MELTDOWN Means

  1. noun: severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping
  2. noun: a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown“there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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MELTDOWN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 E1 L1 T1 D2 O1 W4 N1.

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