BAN is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. BAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BAN?
| 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 BAN is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 9 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BAN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BAN scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does BAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
An official order forbidding something.
Ban once meant a public proclamation of any kind, and the modern sense kept only the forbidding half of it. The same root gave the banns of marriage and the word bandit, who is somebody proclaimed an outlaw.
How BAN is used
Countable. Also a verb: to ban, banned, banning.
- The ban lasted two years and changed nothing.
- They banned the practice and enforced it once.
- A ban on parking that nobody has ever read.
- The word ban once meant any proclamation at all.
- Banning something makes it interesting to people who ignored it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BAN
The 3 tiles of BAN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BAN
Showing 24 of 361 words that begin with BAN.
Words ending in BAN
21 words end in BAN. Useful as a back hook: play BAN onto a word already on the board.
Words with BAN inside
Showing 24 of 418 words that contain BAN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BAN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BAN
Common questions about BAN
- Is BAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BAN, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BAN worth?
- BAN is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BAN mean?
- An official order forbidding something.
- What letters can be added to BAN?
- BAN takes 9 hooks: 0 in front and 9 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BAN:
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