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BANANA

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BANANA Means

  1. noun: any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
  2. noun: elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BANANA 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 N1 A1 N1 A1.

Words Made From The Letters In BANANA

17 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 (1)

4 letter words (4)

3 letter words (7)

2 letter words (5)

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