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BUTTONS

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BUTTONS Means

BUTTONS is a form of BUTTON, which means:

  1. noun: a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
  2. noun: an electrical switch operated by pressing“the elevator was operated by push buttons”
  3. verb: provide with buttons“button a shirt”
  4. verb: fasten with buttons“button the dress”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BUTTONS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 T1 T1 O1 N1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BUTTONS

92 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 (15)

4 letter words (35)

3 letter words (28)

2 letter words (13)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.