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SILKWORMS

9 letters, 18 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SILKWORMS Means

SILKWORMS is a form of SILKWORM, which means:

  1. noun: the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk
  2. noun: larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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SILKWORMS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 I1 L1 K5 W4 O1 R1 M3 S1.

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