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MIDWAYS

7 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What MIDWAYS Means

MIDWAYS is a form of MIDWAY, which means:

  1. noun: the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located
  2. adjective: equally distant from the extremes
  3. adverb: at half the distance; at the middle“he was halfway down the ladder when he fell”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MIDWAYS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 I1 D2 W4 A1 Y4 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In MIDWAYS

102 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 (11)

4 letter words (37)

3 letter words (37)

2 letter words (15)

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