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ORIGINAL

8 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What ORIGINAL Means

  1. adjective: preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed“the original inhabitants of the Americas”
  2. adjective: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary“his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources”
  3. noun: an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
  4. noun: something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies“this painting is a copy of the original”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ORIGINAL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 R1 I1 G2 I1 N1 A1 L1.

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