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ROOTBOUND

9 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What ROOTBOUND Means

  1. adjective: (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots
  2. adjective: having the roots matted or densely tangled“shaggy untended lawns of old trees and rootbound scented flowers and shrubs”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ROOTBOUND is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 O1 O1 T1 B3 O1 U1 N1 D2.

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