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MAGNIFY

7 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What MAGNIFY Means

  1. verb: increase in size, volume or significance“Her terror was magnified in her mind”
  2. verb: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth“tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ‘gracious Old South’ imagery”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MAGNIFY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 A1 G2 N1 I1 F4 Y4.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In MAGNIFY

73 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 (5)

5 letter words (4)

4 letter words (20)

3 letter words (28)

2 letter words (16)

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