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RESTRAIN

8 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What RESTRAIN Means

  1. verb: to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement“This holds the local until the express passengers change trains”
  2. verb: restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

RESTRAIN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 S1 T1 R1 A1 I1 N1.

Anagrams of RESTRAIN (5)

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

Words Made From The Letters In RESTRAIN

408 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.

7 letter words (22)

6 letter words (57)

5 letter words (119)

4 letter words (117)

3 letter words (71)

2 letter words (22)

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