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SAMBA

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SAMBA Means

  1. noun: large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
  2. noun: music composed for dancing the samba
  3. verb: dance the samba

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SAMBA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 A1 M3 B3 A1.

Words Made From The Letters In SAMBA

25 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 (7)

3 letter words (12)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing SAMBA

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

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