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TAXONOMY

8 letters, 20 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What TAXONOMY Means

  1. noun: a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
  2. noun: (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TAXONOMY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 20 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 A1 X8 O1 N1 O1 M3 Y4.

Words Made From The Letters In TAXONOMY

101 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.

6 letter words (1)

5 letter words (11)

4 letter words (29)

3 letter words (40)

2 letter words (20)

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