BABKA is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. BABKA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BABKA?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BABKA is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BABKA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
babkasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BABKA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BABKA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 2 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,091 thousand.
What does BABKA mean in Scrabble?
noun
A rich, sweet yeast bread or cake, often braided or twisted and filled with chocolate, cinnamon or fruit.
A babka is made from an enriched, buttery dough that is rolled out, spread with a sweet filling such as chocolate or cinnamon sugar, then twisted or braided before baking so that the filling forms swirling layers when the loaf is sliced. The bread has its roots in Eastern European Jewish and Slavic baking traditions, where it was often made for holidays and special occasions. In recent decades babka has become widely available in bakeries and coffee shops well beyond its original communities. Chocolate babka is probably the best known variety today, though cinnamon and fruit fillings are also traditional.
How BABKA is used
Increasingly familiar in English through bakeries and recipes, referring to the braided sweet loaf of Eastern European Jewish origin.
- The bakery sold out of chocolate babka before noon.
- She learned to make babka from her grandmother's recipe.
- A slice of warm babka went perfectly with their coffee.
- The cinnamon babka had swirls of sugar running through every layer.
- They brought a babka to the holiday gathering instead of pie.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BABKA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BABKA
The 5 tiles of BABKA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BABKA
1 longer words begin with BABKA.
Shorter words from the letters in BABKA
Common questions about BABKA
- Is BABKA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BABKA, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BABKA worth?
- BABKA is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BABKA mean?
- A rich, sweet yeast bread or cake, often braided or twisted and filled with chocolate, cinnamon or fruit.
- What letters can be added to BABKA?
- BABKA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BABKA:
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