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RANSOM

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What RANSOM Means

  1. noun: money demanded for the return of a captured person
  2. noun: payment for the release of someone
  3. verb: exchange or buy back for money; under threat

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

RANSOM is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 A1 N1 S1 O1 M3.

Anagrams of RANSOM (5)

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

Words Made From The Letters In RANSOM

90 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 (17)

4 letter words (29)

3 letter words (31)

2 letter words (13)

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