BACCATE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. BACCATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BACCATE?
| 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: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BACCATE is to know. It scores 13 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BACCATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
baccatedChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How BACCATE scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in BACCATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| c | 2 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,088 thousand.
What does BACCATE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botany
Bearing berries, or resembling a berry in its soft, pulpy texture.
A botanist calls a fruit baccate when it is fleshy throughout rather than dry or hard. The term separates true berries from nuts and capsules. Baccate is mostly confined to scientific description of plants.
How BACCATE is used
Appears in botanical keys and plant descriptions, where baccate is applied to fruits or to whole shrubs.
- The key describes the fruit as baccate, soft and many-seeded.
- A baccate shrub offered food to birds all winter.
- Unlike a dry pod, a baccate fruit stays juicy when ripe.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BACCATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BACCATE
1 longer words begin with BACCATE.
Shorter words from the letters in BACCATE
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Common questions about BACCATE
- Is BACCATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BACCATE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BACCATE worth?
- BACCATE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BACCATE mean?
- Bearing berries, or resembling a berry in its soft, pulpy texture.
- What letters can be added to BACCATE?
- BACCATE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of BACCATE:
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