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RHEUMATISM

10 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What RHEUMATISM Means

  1. noun: any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues
  2. noun: a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

RHEUMATISM is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 H4 E1 U1 M3 A1 T1 I1 S1 M3.

Words Made From The Letters In RHEUMATISM

831 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.

9 letter words (1)

8 letter words (10)

7 letter words (56)

6 letter words (125)

5 letter words (236)

4 letter words (242)

3 letter words (125)

2 letter words (36)

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