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BUMBOAT

7 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BUMBOAT Means

  1. noun: a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BUMBOAT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 M3 B3 O1 A1 T1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BUMBOAT

69 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 (3)

4 letter words (24)

3 letter words (27)

2 letter words (15)

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