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HUNTS

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What HUNTS Means

HUNTS is a form of HUNT, which means:

  1. verb: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)“Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland”
  2. verb: pursue or chase relentlessly“The hunters traced the deer into the woods”
  3. noun: an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
  4. noun: an instance of searching for something“the hunt for submarines”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HUNTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 U1 N1 T1 S1.

Anagrams of HUNTS (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In HUNTS

26 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.

4 letter words (10)

3 letter words (9)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing HUNTS

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

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