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RECOILED

8 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What RECOILED Means

RECOILED is a form of RECOIL, which means:

  1. verb: draw back, as with fear or pain“she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”
  2. verb: come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect“Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”
  3. noun: the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
  4. noun: a movement back from an impact

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

RECOILED 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 R1 E1 C3 O1 I1 L1 E1 D2.

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