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GRAINS

6 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GRAINS Means

GRAINS is a form of GRAIN, which means:

  1. noun: a relatively small granular particle of a substance“a grain of sand”
  2. noun: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
  3. verb: thoroughly work in“His hands were grained with dirt”
  4. verb: paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GRAINS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 R1 A1 I1 N1 S1.

Anagrams of GRAINS (4)

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

Words Made From The Letters In GRAINS

100 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.

5 letter words (19)

4 letter words (40)

3 letter words (31)

2 letter words (10)

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