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PARASITES

9 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What PARASITES Means

PARASITES is a form of PARASITE, which means:

  1. noun: an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host
  2. noun: a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PARASITES 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 P3 A1 R1 A1 S1 I1 T1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of PARASITES (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PARASITES

596 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 (11)

7 letter words (48)

6 letter words (114)

5 letter words (182)

4 letter words (145)

3 letter words (75)

2 letter words (21)

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