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DUNK

4 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What DUNK Means

  1. verb: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate“dip the garment into the cleaning solution”
  2. verb: make a dunk shot, in basketball“He dunked the ball”
  3. noun: a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DUNK is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 U1 N1 K5.

Words Made From The Letters In DUNK

3 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.

3 letter words (1)

2 letter words (2)

Longer Words Containing DUNK

DUNK appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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