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WITHHOLD

8 letters, 18 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WITHHOLD Means

  1. verb: hold back; refuse to hand over or share“The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room”
  2. verb: retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments“My employer is withholding taxes”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WITHHOLD is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 I1 T1 H4 H4 O1 L1 D2.

Words Made From The Letters In WITHHOLD

85 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.

5 letter words (7)

4 letter words (32)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (16)

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