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BRAINS

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BRAINS Means

BRAINS is a form of BRAIN, which means:

  1. noun: that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
  2. noun: mental ability“he's got plenty of brains but no common sense”
  3. verb: hit on the head
  4. verb: kill by smashing someone's skull

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BRAINS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 R1 A1 I1 N1 S1.

Anagrams of BRAINS (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BRAINS

97 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 (18)

4 letter words (35)

3 letter words (33)

2 letter words (11)

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