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YENS

4 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What YENS Means

YENS is a form of YEN, which means:

  1. noun: a yearning for something or to do something
  2. noun: the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen
  3. verb: have a desire for something or someone who is not present“She ached for a cigarette”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

YENS 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 Y4 E1 N1 S1.

Anagrams of YENS (4)

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

Words Made From The Letters In YENS

15 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.

3 letter words (10)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing YENS

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

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