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JOINS

5 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What JOINS Means

JOINS is a form of JOIN, which means:

  1. verb: become part of; become a member of a group or organization“He joined the Communist Party as a young man”
  2. verb: cause to become joined or linked“join these two parts so that they fit together”
  3. noun: the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
  4. noun: a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets“let C be the union of the sets A and B”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

JOINS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 O1 I1 N1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In JOINS

25 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 (4)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing JOINS

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

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