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SCANTINESS

10 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What SCANTINESS Means

  1. noun: the quality of being meager“an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes”
  2. noun: Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing.“She cared only for brightness of colour, ease of fit, and a brevity and skimpiness of skirt absolutely astounding in these days of crinolines and trains.”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SCANTINESS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 C3 A1 N1 T1 I1 N1 E1 S1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In SCANTINESS

423 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 (6)

8 letter words (12)

7 letter words (42)

6 letter words (75)

5 letter words (95)

4 letter words (112)

3 letter words (62)

2 letter words (19)

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