What EARNEST Means
- adjective: characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions“both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate”
- adjective: sincerely earnest“one's dearest wish”
- noun: something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
EARNEST is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 A1 R1 N1 E1 S1 T1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 57 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of EARNEST (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In EARNEST
248 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 (33)
5 letter words (70)
4 letter words (78)
3 letter words (50)
2 letter words (17)
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