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MANIACS

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What MANIACS Means

MANIACS is a form of MANIAC, which means:

  1. noun: an insane person
  2. noun: a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something
  3. adjective: wildly disordered“a maniacal frenzy”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MANIACS 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 N1 I1 A1 C3 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of MANIACS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In MANIACS

115 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 (9)

5 letter words (20)

4 letter words (40)

3 letter words (35)

2 letter words (11)

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