What BUGBANE Means
- noun: North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
- noun: a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BUGBANE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 G2 B3 A1 N1 E1.
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 BUGBANE
74 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 (7)
4 letter words (22)
3 letter words (30)
2 letter words (14)
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