BADNESS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BADNESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BADNESS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BADNESS is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BADNESS
No single letter turns BADNESS into another word.
How BADNESS scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in BADNESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 514,646.
What does BADNESS mean in Scrabble?
noun
The quality or condition of being bad, whether in standard, behaviour or degree.
Badness is the abstract noun that lets speakers talk about how poor or wicked something is without naming a particular fault. It can describe moral failure in a person, but it is just as often used for the sheer degree of an unpleasant thing such as pain or weather.
How BADNESS is used
Badness appears in both everyday talk and moral or philosophical writing, usually followed by "of".
- The badness of the road surface became obvious after the first mile.
- Nobody could explain the sheer badness of the film.
- Some stories suggest a child is born with a streak of badness.
- The badness of the storm kept the ferries in harbour.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BADNESS and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BADNESS
1 longer words begin with BADNESS.
Shorter words from the letters in BADNESS
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Common questions about BADNESS
- Is BADNESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BADNESS, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BADNESS worth?
- BADNESS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BADNESS mean?
- The quality or condition of being bad, whether in standard, behaviour or degree.
- What letters can be added to BADNESS?
- No single letter can be added to BADNESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of BADNESS:
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