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BYZANTS

7 letters, 21 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What BYZANTS Means

BYZANTS is a form of BYZANT, which means:

  1. noun: a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BYZANTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 21 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 Y4 Z10 A1 N1 T1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 71 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BYZANTS

70 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 (6)

4 letter words (20)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (13)

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