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ORTHOEPY

8 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ORTHOEPY Means

  1. noun: the way a word or a language is customarily spoken“the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners”
  2. noun: a term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the ‘correct’ pronunciation of words and its relation to ‘correct’ orthography

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ORTHOEPY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 R1 T1 H4 O1 E1 P3 Y4.

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