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SILICONS

8 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What SILICONS Means

SILICONS is a form of SILICON, which means:

  1. noun: a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SILICONS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 I1 L1 I1 C3 O1 N1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In SILICONS

86 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.

7 letter words (1)

6 letter words (5)

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (29)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (11)

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