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MAINFRAMES

10 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What MAINFRAMES Means

MAINFRAMES is a form of MAINFRAME, which means:

  1. noun: a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room
  2. noun: (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing“the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MAINFRAMES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 A1 I1 N1 F4 R1 A1 M3 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In MAINFRAMES

528 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 (1)

7 letter words (20)

6 letter words (73)

5 letter words (152)

4 letter words (161)

3 letter words (94)

2 letter words (26)

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