BAGEL is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BAGEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BAGEL?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BAGEL is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BAGEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bagelsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BAGEL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BAGEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about BAGEL
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 BAGEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
A dense, ring-shaped bread roll, usually boiled briefly before baking.
A bagel gets its distinctive chewy crust from being boiled in water, often with a little malt or sugar, before it goes into the oven, a step that ordinary bread rolls skip entirely. The recipe came to North America with Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and it is now sold everywhere from delis to supermarket bakeries, split and filled with cream cheese, lox or almost anything else. In tennis, informally, a bagel is also a set won six games to love, because the zero looks like the hole in the roll.
How BAGEL is used
Countable: a bagel, a dozen bagels. Often modified -- a sesame bagel, a plain bagel.
- She toasted a bagel and spread it with cream cheese.
- The bakery sold out of everything bagels by nine in the morning.
- He ordered a bagel with lox and capers.
- The champion won the first set six-love, a bagel that stunned the crowd.
- They queued outside the deli for fresh bagels every Sunday.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BAGEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BAGEL
The 5 tiles of BAGEL in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with BAGEL
5 longer words begin with BAGEL.
Shorter words from the letters in BAGEL
Common questions about BAGEL
- Is BAGEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BAGEL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BAGEL worth?
- BAGEL is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BAGEL mean?
- A dense, ring-shaped bread roll, usually boiled briefly before baking.
- What letters can be added to BAGEL?
- BAGEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BAGEL:
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