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STALEMATE

9 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What STALEMATE Means

  1. noun: a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible“reached an impasse on the negotiations”
  2. noun: drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place their king in check
  3. verb: subject to a stalemate

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

STALEMATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 A1 L1 E1 M3 A1 T1 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In STALEMATE

309 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 (2)

7 letter words (9)

6 letter words (32)

5 letter words (81)

4 letter words (112)

3 letter words (55)

2 letter words (18)

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