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BINARY

6 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BINARY Means

  1. noun: a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
  2. noun: a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system“the same source code can be compiled to produce different binaries for different operating systems”
  3. adjective: of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base“a binary digit”
  4. adjective: consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms)“a binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BINARY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 I1 N1 A1 R1 Y4.

Anagrams of BINARY (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BINARY

58 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 (6)

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (12)

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