TRANSIT

What TRANSIT Means

1. verb: make a passage or journey from one place to another“The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs”
2. verb: pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)“The comet will transit on September 11”
3. noun: a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
4. noun: a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TRANSIT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 R1 A1 N1 S1 I1 T1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 57 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of TRANSIT (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In TRANSIT

163 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 (14)

5 letter words (44)

4 letter words (52)

3 letter words (40)

2 letter words (13)

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