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PLEONASM

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What PLEONASM Means

  1. noun: using more words than necessary“pleonasms such as ‘a tiny little child’”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PLEONASM is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 L1 E1 O1 N1 A1 S1 M3.

Anagrams of PLEONASM (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In PLEONASM

387 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 (5)

6 letter words (22)

5 letter words (104)

4 letter words (146)

3 letter words (83)

2 letter words (27)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.