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EBONIES

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What EBONIES Means

EBONIES is a form of EBONY, which means:

  1. noun: a very dark black
  2. noun: hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
  3. adjective: of a very dark black

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

EBONIES 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 E1 B3 O1 N1 I1 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of EBONIES (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In EBONIES

108 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 (2)

5 letter words (12)

4 letter words (38)

3 letter words (38)

2 letter words (18)

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