BAC is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. BAC is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BAC?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BAC is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BAC
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BAC scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BAC, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does BAC mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A large open vat or cistern used to hold liquid during an industrial process such as dyeing, tanning or brewing.
A bac is essentially a big shallow tub into which a workshop or factory runs liquid so that it can settle, cool or soak. The word appears mainly in older accounts of trades like dyeing and leather-working.
How BAC is used
Chiefly historical or technical usage describing craft and industrial equipment.
- The dyer ladled the cloth into a wide bac of blue liquid.
- Workers scrubbed the bac clean before the next batch of hides went in.
- Steam rose off the bac as the mixture cooled overnight.
- The tannery kept three bacs working at once during busy months.
- An old iron bac still stands in the corner of the abandoned mill.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BAC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BAC
The 3 tiles of BAC in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BAC
Showing 24 of 589 words that begin with BAC.
Words ending in BAC
4 words end in BAC. Useful as a back hook: play BAC onto a word already on the board.
Words with BAC inside
Showing 24 of 431 words that contain BAC somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BAC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BAC
Common questions about BAC
- Is BAC valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BAC is not in it.
- How many points is BAC worth?
- BAC is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BAC mean?
- A large open vat or cistern used to hold liquid during an industrial process such as dyeing, tanning or brewing.
- What letters can be added to BAC?
- BAC takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BAC:
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