What BANYANS Means
BANYANS is a form of BANYAN, which means:
- noun: East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
- noun: a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BANYANS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 N1 Y4 A1 N1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In BANYANS
61 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 (7)
4 letter words (18)
3 letter words (24)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.