What BURNS Means
BURNS is a form of BURN, which means:
- verb: destroy by fire“They burned the house and his diaries”
- verb: shine intensely, as if with heat“The coals were glowing in the dark”
- noun: pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- noun: an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BURNS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 R1 N1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In BURNS
30 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 (11)
3 letter words (15)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing BURNS
BURNS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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