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SAPONIFIES

10 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 5 vowels

What SAPONIFIES Means

SAPONIFIES is a form of SAPONIFY, which means:

  1. verb: become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali“the oil saponified”
  2. verb: convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali“saponify oils and fats”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SAPONIFIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 A1 P3 O1 N1 I1 F4 I1 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In SAPONIFIES

395 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 (3)

7 letter words (18)

6 letter words (43)

5 letter words (101)

4 letter words (126)

3 letter words (75)

2 letter words (29)

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