What MAIN Means
- adjective: most important element“the chief aim of living”
- adjective: (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence“the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb”
- noun: any very large body of (salt) water
- noun: a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
MAIN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 A1 I1 N1.
Anagrams of MAIN (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In MAIN
15 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.
3 letter words (8)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing MAIN
MAIN appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ALMAINALMAINSAMAINBAISEMAINBAISEMAINSCODOMAINCODOMAINSCREMAINSDEMAINDEMAINEDEMAINESDEMAINSDIPLOMAINGDOMAINDOMAINALDOMAINEDOMAINESDOMAINSGERMAINGERMAINEGERMAINESGERMAINSLEUCOMAINEMAINBOOMMAINBOOMSMAINBRACEMAINBRACESMAINDOORMAINDOORSMAINEDMAINERMAINESTMAINFRAMEMAINFRAMESMAININGMAINLANDMAINLANDERMAINLANDSMAINLINEMAINLINED
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