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PARTITION

9 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What PARTITION Means

  1. noun: a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
  2. noun: (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
  3. verb: divide into parts, pieces, or sections“The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British”
  4. verb: separate or apportion into sections“partition a room off”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PARTITION 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 T1 I1 T1 I1 O1 N1.

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