BAEL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. BAEL 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BAEL?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BAEL is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BAEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
baelsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BAEL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BAEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,538.
What stands out about BAEL
- The same 4 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BAEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanyIndian English
A thorny Indian tree, known in English as the Bengal quince, whose hard-shelled aromatic fruit is used in traditional drinks and medicine.
The bael grows across the Indian subcontinent and produces a round, woody fruit that is cracked open to reveal a sweet, fragrant pulp. Villages have long dried or juiced the fruit of the bael to make a cooling drink in the hot season, and various parts of the tree appear in traditional Ayurvedic remedies. In English the same word bael names both the tree itself and its fruit.
How BAEL is used
Mainly used in writing about Indian botany, cooking and traditional medicine; unfamiliar outside that context.
- They planted a bael at the corner of the temple garden.
- The bael fruit was cracked open with a small hammer.
- A cool drink made from bael pulp was served during the heat of summer.
- Traditional healers valued the bael for its bark as well as its fruit.
- Thorns along the branches make the bael tree hard to climb.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BAEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BAEL
The 4 tiles of BAEL in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with BAEL
1 longer words begin with BAEL.
Shorter words from the letters in BAEL
Common questions about BAEL
- Is BAEL valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BAEL is not in it.
- How many points is BAEL worth?
- BAEL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BAEL mean?
- A thorny Indian tree, known in English as the Bengal quince, whose hard-shelled aromatic fruit is used in traditional drinks and medicine.
- What letters can be added to BAEL?
- BAEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BAEL:
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