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TENDERNESS

10 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What TENDERNESS Means

  1. noun: a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
  2. noun: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)“the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TENDERNESS 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 T1 E1 N1 D2 E1 R1 N1 E1 S1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In TENDERNESS

299 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.

9 letter words (2)

8 letter words (5)

7 letter words (33)

6 letter words (66)

5 letter words (85)

4 letter words (68)

3 letter words (29)

2 letter words (11)

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