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BUNT

4 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What BUNT Means

  1. noun: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball or softball lightly by holding the bat in a stationary position rather than swinging it
  2. noun: disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
  3. verb: hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
  4. verb: to strike, thrust or shove against“He butted his sister out of the way”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BUNT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 N1 T1.

Words Made From The Letters In BUNT

9 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.

3 letter words (6)

2 letter words (3)

Longer Words Containing BUNT

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

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