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SPECULATE

9 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What SPECULATE Means

  1. verb: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds“Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps”
  2. verb: talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion“We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SPECULATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 P3 E1 C3 U1 L1 A1 T1 E1.

Anagrams of SPECULATE (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In SPECULATE

509 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.

8 letter words (3)

7 letter words (22)

6 letter words (70)

5 letter words (154)

4 letter words (157)

3 letter words (85)

2 letter words (18)

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