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OSCITANCY

9 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What OSCITANCY Means

  1. noun: drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning
  2. noun: an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom“he could not suppress a yawn”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

OSCITANCY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 S1 C3 I1 T1 A1 N1 C3 Y4.

Anagrams of OSCITANCY (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In OSCITANCY

299 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 (3)

7 letter words (9)

6 letter words (34)

5 letter words (68)

4 letter words (92)

3 letter words (69)

2 letter words (24)

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