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SCARCEST

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SCARCEST Means

SCARCEST is a form of SCARCE, which means:

  1. adverb: only a very short time before“we hardly knew them”
  2. adverb: almost not“he hardly ever goes fishing”
  3. adjective: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand“fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SCARCEST 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 S1 C3 A1 R1 C3 E1 S1 T1.

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.