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SUBSTITUTE

10 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What SUBSTITUTE Means

  1. noun: a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
  2. noun: an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
  3. verb: put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items“the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt”
  4. verb: be a substitute“The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SUBSTITUTE 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 U1 B3 S1 T1 I1 T1 U1 T1 E1.

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