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BOUNCES

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BOUNCES Means

BOUNCES is a form of BOUNCE, which means:

  1. verb: spring back; spring away from an impact“The rubber ball bounced”
  2. verb: hit something so that it bounces“bounce a ball”
  3. noun: the quality of a substance that is able to rebound
  4. noun: a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BOUNCES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 U1 N1 C3 E1 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 BOUNCES

113 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 (6)

5 letter words (21)

4 letter words (34)

3 letter words (37)

2 letter words (15)

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