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BOVINES

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BOVINES Means

BOVINES is a form of BOVINE, which means:

  1. adjective: of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
  2. adjective: dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox“showed a bovine apathy”
  3. noun: any of various members of the genus Bos

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BOVINES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 V4 I1 N1 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BOVINES

119 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 (4)

5 letter words (18)

4 letter words (41)

3 letter words (39)

2 letter words (17)

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