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MENTION

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What MENTION Means

  1. noun: a remark that calls attention to something or someone“she made frequent mention of her promotion”
  2. noun: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage“the student's essay failed to list several important citations”
  3. verb: make reference to“he was named in connection with the invention”
  4. verb: make mention of“She observed that his presentation took up too much time”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MENTION is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 E1 N1 T1 I1 O1 N1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In MENTION

88 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 (2)

5 letter words (13)

4 letter words (31)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (18)

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