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BONANZA

7 letters, 18 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BONANZA Means

  1. noun: an especially rich vein of precious ore
  2. noun: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)“the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BONANZA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 N1 A1 N1 Z10 A1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 68 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BONANZA

38 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 (12)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (11)

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