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POLYGENES

9 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What POLYGENES Means

POLYGENES is a form of POLYGENE, which means:

  1. noun: a gene that by itself has little effect on the phenotype but which can act together with others to produce observable variations

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

POLYGENES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 O1 L1 Y4 G2 E1 N1 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In POLYGENES

336 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 (2)

7 letter words (7)

6 letter words (27)

5 letter words (84)

4 letter words (121)

3 letter words (76)

2 letter words (19)

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