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SPECIOUS

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What SPECIOUS Means

  1. adjective: plausible but false“a specious claim”
  2. adjective: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing“the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SPECIOUS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 P3 E1 C3 I1 O1 U1 S1.

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