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POORLIEST

9 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What POORLIEST Means

POORLIEST is a form of POORLY, which means:

  1. adjective: somewhat ill or prone to illness“my poor ailing grandmother”
  2. adverb: (‘ill’ is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well“he was ill prepared”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

POORLIEST 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 O1 O1 R1 L1 I1 E1 S1 T1.

Anagrams of POORLIEST (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In POORLIEST

625 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 (6)

7 letter words (47)

6 letter words (99)

5 letter words (188)

4 letter words (177)

3 letter words (83)

2 letter words (25)

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