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MUNGS

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What MUNGS Means

MUNGS is a form of MUNG, which means:

  1. noun: seed of the mung bean plant; used for food
  2. noun: erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MUNGS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 U1 N1 G2 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In MUNGS

30 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.

4 letter words (9)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (7)

Longer Words Containing MUNGS

MUNGS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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