minutes M₃I₁N₁U₁T₁E₁S₁

A meeting’s minutes are its official notes: the written record of what took place. The word is a familiar seven-letter entry, appearing in Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE. Its tile value is modest, but its M is worth more than each of the other six letters, so the score comes from a useful mix of common tiles rather than a premium letter.

MINUTES at a glance

• MINUTES has seven letters and scores 9 Scrabble points.
• The meeting-notes sense means the official notes kept during a meeting.
• Its four anagrams are MINUETS, MUTINES, MISTUNE, and MUNITES.
• MINUSES, MINUTED, and MINUTER are its three one-letter neighbours.

What does MINUTES mean?

MINUTES names the official notes kept during a meeting. Those notes preserve the record of the meeting, rather than serving as a transcript of every spoken word. That distinction makes the word’s meeting sense specific: it points to the written record, not simply to the event itself.

The letters rearrange into four recorded anagrams: MINUETS, MUTINES, MISTUNE, and MUNITES. MINUETS is the easiest to recognise as a word, while the other forms are less familiar. Three one-letter changes give MINUSES, MINUTED, and MINUTER; each keeps six of MINUTES’ seven letters.

What is the Scrabble score for MINUTES?

MINUTES scores 9 points before board bonuses. M is worth 3, while I, N, U, T, E, and S each add 1, making the total 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1. The single higher-value tile does the work; the remaining letters keep the word’s base score low.

That balanced tile mix makes MINUTES easier to fit around existing plays than a word built from several high-value letters, but 9 points is not a premium-letter haul. A letter or word bonus square can change the result, so count the board position as well as the printed tile values. For related seven-letter options, browse words beginning with M or ending in S.