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BALSAS

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BALSAS Means

BALSAS is a form of BALSA, which means:

  1. noun: strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
  2. noun: forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BALSAS 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 B3 A1 L1 S1 A1 S1.

Anagrams of BALSAS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In BALSAS

42 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 (8)

4 letter words (14)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (6)

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