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PRICKLIER

9 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What PRICKLIER Means

PRICKLIER is a form of PRICKLY, which means:

  1. adjective: very irritable“bristly exchanges between the White House and the press”
  2. adjective: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.“a horse with a short bristly mane”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PRICKLIER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 R1 I1 C3 K5 L1 I1 E1 R1.

Words Made From The Letters In PRICKLIER

121 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 (1)

7 letter words (5)

6 letter words (11)

5 letter words (24)

4 letter words (43)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (7)

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