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TUATARAS

8 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What TUATARAS Means

TUATARAS is a form of TUATARA, which means:

  1. noun: only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TUATARAS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 U1 A1 T1 A1 R1 A1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In TUATARAS

89 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 (9)

5 letter words (22)

4 letter words (28)

3 letter words (20)

2 letter words (9)

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