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SCALPING

8 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SCALPING Means

SCALPING is a form of SCALP, which means:

  1. verb: sell illegally, as on the black market
  2. verb: remove the scalp of“The enemies were scalped”
  3. noun: the skin that covers the top of the head“they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SCALPING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 C3 A1 L1 P3 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of SCALPING (2)

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

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