What AMBOYNA Means
- noun: mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus
- noun: tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
AMBOYNA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 M3 B3 O1 Y4 N1 A1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In AMBOYNA
78 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 (2)
5 letter words (5)
4 letter words (19)
3 letter words (32)
2 letter words (20)
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