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BACKBOARDS

10 letters, 21 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BACKBOARDS Means

BACKBOARDS is a form of BACKBOARD, which means:

  1. noun: a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball“he banked the shot off the backboard”
  2. noun: a board used to support the back of someone or something

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BACKBOARDS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 21 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 C3 K5 B3 O1 A1 R1 D2 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In BACKBOARDS

344 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.

9 letter words (1)

8 letter words (2)

7 letter words (4)

6 letter words (35)

5 letter words (85)

4 letter words (125)

3 letter words (76)

2 letter words (16)

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