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BENCHED

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BENCHED Means

BENCHED is a form of BENCH, which means:

  1. noun: a long seat for more than one person
  2. noun: a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
  3. verb: take out of a game; of players
  4. verb: exhibit on a bench“bench the poodles at the dog show”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BENCHED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 E1 N1 C3 H4 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BENCHED

46 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 (5)

4 letter words (15)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (9)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.