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BOOMERANG

9 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What BOOMERANG Means

  1. noun: a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
  2. noun: a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
  3. verb: return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BOOMERANG is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 O1 M3 E1 R1 A1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of BOOMERANG (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BOOMERANG

368 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.

8 letter words (1)

7 letter words (7)

6 letter words (41)

5 letter words (82)

4 letter words (116)

3 letter words (94)

2 letter words (27)

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