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MAMBO

5 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What MAMBO Means

  1. noun: a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba
  2. verb: dance a mambo

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MAMBO is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 A1 M3 B3 O1.

Words Made From The Letters In MAMBO

20 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 (3)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (9)

Longer Words Containing MAMBO

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

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