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MINIATE

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What MINIATE Means

  1. verb: paint with red lead or vermilion
  2. verb: decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red“In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MINIATE 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 I1 N1 I1 A1 T1 E1.

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

Anagrams of MINIATE (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In MINIATE

114 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 (15)

4 letter words (40)

3 letter words (34)

2 letter words (19)

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