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PERILOUS

8 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What PERILOUS Means

  1. adjective: fraught with danger“a parlous journey on stormy seas”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PERILOUS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 E1 R1 I1 L1 O1 U1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In PERILOUS

369 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.

7 letter words (12)

6 letter words (39)

5 letter words (105)

4 letter words (119)

3 letter words (72)

2 letter words (22)

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