BACK is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BACK 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 BACK?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BACK is to know. It scores 12 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BACK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BACK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BACK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 108,923.
What does BACK mean in Scrabble?
noun
The rear surface of the body.
Back does more jobs than almost any other English word of one syllable: noun, verb, adjective and adverb, with hundreds of phrases on top. The adverb sense arrived last and is a shortening of aback.
How BACK is used
Countable. Also a verb, adjective and adverb.
- The back of the building is older than the front.
- They backed the wrong horse twice in one afternoon.
- The word back works as four parts of speech.
- Back as an adverb is shortened from aback.
- Two backs to the wall and nowhere else to go.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BACK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BACK
Showing 24 of 410 words that begin with BACK.
Words ending in BACK
Showing 24 of 130 words that end in BACK. Useful as a back hook: play BACK onto a word already on the board.
Words with BACK inside
Showing 24 of 167 words that contain BACK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BACK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BACK
Common questions about BACK
- Is BACK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BACK, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BACK worth?
- BACK is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BACK mean?
- The rear surface of the body.
- What letters can be added to BACK?
- BACK takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BACK:
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