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BUY

3 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What BUY Means

  1. verb: obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction“The family purchased a new car”
  2. verb: make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence“This judge can be bought”
  3. noun: an advantageous purchase“she got a bargain at the auction”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BUY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 Y4.

Words Made From The Letters In BUY

2 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.

2 letter words (2)

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