What DUNES Means
DUNES is a form of DUN, which means:
- verb: treat cruelly“The children tormented the stuttering teacher”
- verb: persistently ask for overdue payment“The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone”
- noun: horse of a dull brownish grey color
- noun: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color“she wore dun”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DUNES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 U1 N1 E1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In DUNES
36 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.
4 letter words (12)
3 letter words (16)
2 letter words (8)
Longer Words Containing DUNES
DUNES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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