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BUNKS

5 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What BUNKS Means

BUNKS is a form of BUNK, which means:

  1. noun: a long trough for feeding cattle
  2. noun: a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
  3. verb: avoid paying“beat the subway fare”
  4. verb: provide with a bunk“We bunked the children upstairs”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BUNKS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 N1 K5 S1.

Anagrams of BUNKS (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BUNKS

18 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.

4 letter words (7)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (3)

Longer Words Containing BUNKS

BUNKS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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