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BONOBOS

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BONOBOS Means

BONOBOS is a form of BONOBO, which means:

  1. noun: small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BONOBOS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 N1 O1 B3 O1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BONOBOS

35 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 (1)

5 letter words (3)

4 letter words (10)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (7)

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