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SACKBUT

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SACKBUT Means

  1. noun: a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SACKBUT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 A1 C3 K5 B3 U1 T1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of SACKBUT (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SACKBUT

104 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 (2)

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (45)

3 letter words (32)

2 letter words (9)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.