BANAK is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. BANAK 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BANAK?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BANAK is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BANAK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
banaksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BANAK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BANAK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does BANAK mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A tall tropical tree of Central America whose soft, pale wood is cut for lightweight lumber and plywood.
Banak grows in wet lowland forest from southern Mexico down into northern South America, and timber merchants prize it precisely because the wood is light and easy to cut. Cabinet makers and plywood mills use it as a cheaper stand-in for mahogany when a fine grain is not required. The name comes from Central American Spanish rather than from any English root.
How BANAK is used
A trade and botanical term, met mostly in timber catalogues and forestry writing rather than everyday speech.
- The plywood factory bought a shipment of banak logs from the coast.
- Banak trees can reach great height before the first branch appears.
- Furniture made from banak is light enough for one person to carry.
- Loggers prefer banak over harder woods when speed of cutting matters.
- The catalogue listed banak alongside other soft tropical hardwoods.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BANAK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BANAK
1 longer words begin with BANAK.
Shorter words from the letters in BANAK
Common questions about BANAK
- Is BANAK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BANAK is not in it.
- How many points is BANAK worth?
- BANAK is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BANAK mean?
- A tall tropical tree of Central America whose soft, pale wood is cut for lightweight lumber and plywood.
- What letters can be added to BANAK?
- BANAK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BANAK:
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