What NINJA Means
- noun: a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu
- noun: a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassinations
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NINJA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 I1 N1 J8 A1.
Words Made From The Letters In NINJA
15 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 (3)
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing NINJA
NINJA appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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