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tunnel

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Is tunnel a Scrabble word?

Yes, tunnel is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of tunnel?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.

2. (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.

3. (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.Examples: "Especially in the Eden Valley, trees create what is almost a green tunnel (particularly in summer)."figuratively

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.Examples: "The 1955 Act gave powers for compulsory acquisition of "easements", or permission to tunnel beneath dwelling houses instead of, as had previously been necessary, following approximately the course of surface roads."; "The 6.5km route is agreed from a junction with the relief lines of the Great Western main line to the west of Slough, the new link would tunnel under the M25 to reach Heathrow's Terminal 5 station, where space has been set aside to accommodate services from the west."Synonyms: underminetransitive

2. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.intransitive

3. (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).

4. (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.transitive

5. (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "tunnel"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "tunnel"?

Scrabble
6 points
T1
U1
N1
N1
E1
L1
Words With Friends
10 points
T1
U2
N2
N2
E1
L2

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