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OSCILLATE

9 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What OSCILLATE Means

  1. verb: be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action“He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement”
  2. verb: move or swing from side to side regularly“the needle on the meter was oscillating”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

OSCILLATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 S1 C3 I1 L1 L1 A1 T1 E1.

Anagrams of OSCILLATE (2)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In OSCILLATE

513 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.

8 letter words (8)

7 letter words (33)

6 letter words (60)

5 letter words (138)

4 letter words (169)

3 letter words (80)

2 letter words (25)

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