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MARABOU

7 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What MARABOU Means

  1. noun: large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments
  2. noun: the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MARABOU is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 A1 R1 A1 B3 O1 U1.

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

Words Made From The Letters In MARABOU

79 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.

5 letter words (8)

4 letter words (23)

3 letter words (33)

2 letter words (15)

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