What UNKNOWN Means
- adjective: not known“an unknown amount”
- adjective: being or having an unknown or unnamed source“a poem by an unknown author”
- noun: an unknown and unexplored region“they came like angels out of the unknown”
- noun: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
UNKNOWN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as U1 N1 K5 N1 O1 W4 N1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In UNKNOWN
23 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 (2)
4 letter words (4)
3 letter words (9)
2 letter words (8)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.