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MENACED

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What MENACED Means

MENACED is a form of MENACE, which means:

  1. verb: pose a threat to; present a danger to“The pollution is endangering the crops”
  2. verb: express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture“he menaced the bank manager with a stick”
  3. noun: something that is a source of danger“earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan”
  4. noun: a threat or the act of threatening“he spoke with desperate menace”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MENACED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 E1 N1 A1 C3 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In MENACED

100 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 (6)

5 letter words (19)

4 letter words (30)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (15)

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