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TAINTING

8 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What TAINTING Means

TAINTING is a form of TAINT, which means:

  1. verb: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon“sully someone's reputation”
  2. verb: contaminate with a disease or microorganism
  3. noun: the state of being contaminated

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TAINTING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 A1 I1 N1 T1 I1 N1 G2.

Words Made From The Letters In TAINTING

69 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.

7 letter words (1)

6 letter words (4)

5 letter words (10)

4 letter words (21)

3 letter words (23)

2 letter words (10)

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