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BABASSU

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BABASSU Means

  1. noun: tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BABASSU is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 B3 A1 S1 S1 U1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BABASSU

39 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 (1)

5 letter words (6)

4 letter words (14)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (5)

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