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HYAENAS

7 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What HYAENAS Means

HYAENAS is a form of HYAENA, which means:

  1. noun: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HYAENAS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 Y4 A1 E1 N1 A1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In HYAENAS

114 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 (11)

4 letter words (36)

3 letter words (47)

2 letter words (18)

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