BLIGHT is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BLIGHT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BLIGHT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BLIGHT is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BLIGHT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BLIGHT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BLIGHT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 459,897.
What stands out about BLIGHT
- BLIGHT gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BLIGHT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A plant disease that makes leaves and crops wither, or anything that spoils or ruins something.
In farming, blight is a general name for several diseases caused by fungi and similar organisms, such as potato blight, which brought famine to Ireland in the 1840s. The word spread into everyday speech to describe anything that damages a place or hope, so a neighbourhood can suffer urban blight. It is also a verb, meaning to ruin or to infect with the disease.
How BLIGHT is used
Used in gardening and farming, and figuratively in news and politics.
- Blight destroyed the whole tomato crop in a week.
- Empty shops became a blight on the high street.
- The council promised to fight blight in the old district.
- A late frost and then blight ruined the orchard.
- Fear of failure was a blight on his early years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BLIGHT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BLIGHT
9 longer words begin with BLIGHT.
Shorter words from the letters in BLIGHT
Common questions about BLIGHT
- Is BLIGHT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BLIGHT, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BLIGHT worth?
- BLIGHT is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BLIGHT mean?
- A plant disease that makes leaves and crops wither, or anything that spoils or ruins something.
- What letters can be added to BLIGHT?
- BLIGHT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BLIGHT:
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