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HAPPENS

7 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What HAPPENS Means

HAPPENS is a form of HAPPEN, which means:

  1. verb: come to pass“What is happening?”
  2. verb: happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance“It happens that today is my birthday”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HAPPENS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 A1 P3 P3 E1 N1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In HAPPENS

113 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 (3)

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (39)

3 letter words (40)

2 letter words (15)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.