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RANSACK

7 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What RANSACK Means

  1. verb: steal goods; take as spoils“During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”
  2. verb: search thoroughly“They combed the area for the missing child”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

RANSACK is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 A1 N1 S1 A1 C3 K5.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In RANSACK

84 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 (1)

5 letter words (23)

4 letter words (35)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (6)

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