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CAPTAIN

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CAPTAIN Means

  1. noun: an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
  2. noun: the naval officer in command of a military ship
  3. verb: be the captain of a sports team

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CAPTAIN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 P3 T1 A1 I1 N1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of CAPTAIN (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In CAPTAIN

85 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 (7)

5 letter words (10)

4 letter words (26)

3 letter words (31)

2 letter words (11)

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