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MINUTE

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What MINUTE Means

  1. noun: a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour“he ran a 4 minute mile”
  2. noun: an indefinitely short time“wait just a moment”
  3. adjective: infinitely or immeasurably small“two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm”
  4. adjective: characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination“a minute inspection of the grounds”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MINUTE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 I1 N1 U1 T1 E1.

Anagrams of MINUTE (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In MINUTE

59 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 (4)

4 letter words (21)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (15)

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