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CRANKED

7 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CRANKED Means

CRANKED is a form of CRANK, which means:

  1. verb: travel along a zigzag path“The river zigzags through the countryside”
  2. verb: start by cranking“crank up the engine”
  3. noun: a bad-tempered person
  4. noun: a whimsically eccentric person

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CRANKED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 R1 A1 N1 K5 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

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