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MUTES

5 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What MUTES Means

MUTES is a form of MUTE, which means:

  1. noun: a deaf person who is unable to speak
  2. noun: a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
  3. adjective: expressed without speech“a mute appeal”
  4. adjective: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MUTES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 U1 T1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of MUTES (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In MUTES

40 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 (13)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing MUTES

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

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