BACCA is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BACCA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BACCA?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BACCA is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BACCA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BACCA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BACCA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What does BACCA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
The botanical term for a berry, a fleshy fruit that develops from a single ovary and usually contains several seeds.
Bacca is the Latin word botanists use for a specific kind of fleshy fruit, one that forms from a single ovary and holds its seeds inside a soft outer wall rather than a hard shell or stone. Grapes, tomatoes, and cranberries all count as a bacca in this technical sense, even though everyday speech simply calls them berries. Botanical writing keeps the Latin term partly out of tradition and partly because it draws a precise line against fruits that look similar but form differently, such as a drupe with a hard pit. Outside plant science, bacca appears rarely and almost always in Latin plant descriptions or older botanical texts.
How BACCA is used
Technical noun used mainly in botanical Latin and formal plant description; general readers are more likely to meet the everyday word berry.
- The botanist classified the tomato as a true bacca.
- Older plant guides describe the grape as a bacca.
- The manual explained how a bacca differs from a drupe.
- Students learned to identify a bacca by its fleshy, seed-filled interior.
- The Latin description labeled the fruit simply as bacca.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BACCA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BACCA
14 longer words begin with BACCA.
Words ending in BACCA
1 words end in BACCA. Useful as a back hook: play BACCA onto a word already on the board.
Words with BACCA inside
4 words contain BACCA in the middle. Words that start with BACCA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BACCA
Common questions about BACCA
- Is BACCA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BACCA, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BACCA worth?
- BACCA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BACCA mean?
- The botanical term for a berry, a fleshy fruit that develops from a single ovary and usually contains several seeds.
- What letters can be added to BACCA?
- BACCA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BACCA:
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