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PUNISHING

9 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What PUNISHING Means

  1. adjective: resulting in punishment“the king imposed a punishing tax”
  2. adjective: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort“worked their arduous way up the mining valley”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PUNISHING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 U1 N1 I1 S1 H4 I1 N1 G2.

Words Made From The Letters In PUNISHING

137 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 (7)

6 letter words (9)

5 letter words (9)

4 letter words (53)

3 letter words (44)

2 letter words (14)

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