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OPPOSITE

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What OPPOSITE Means

  1. adjective: being directly across from each other; facing“And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm”
  2. adjective: of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem“opposite leaves”
  3. noun: a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other“to him the antonym of ‘gay’ was ‘depressed’”
  4. noun: a relation of direct opposition“we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

OPPOSITE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 P3 P3 O1 S1 I1 T1 E1.

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