BANAL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BANAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BANAL?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BANAL is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BANAL
No single letter turns BANAL into another word.
How BANAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BANAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does BANAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
So lacking in originality or freshness as to be predictable and boring; trite, commonplace.
Banal describes ideas, remarks, or works that once might have felt clever but have been repeated so often that they no longer hold any interest, unlike merely simple or ordinary things that were never meant to surprise anyone. The word carries a mildly critical edge, so calling a film's dialogue banal is a sharper complaint than calling it merely plain. It entered English from French, where the same word originally described things belonging to a feudal lord's communal property before it shifted toward meaning common or ordinary and eventually took on its modern sense of dull through overuse.
How BANAL is used
Mildly critical in tone, used in reviews and everyday speech to dismiss something as unoriginal or overused.
- The critic called the film's plot painfully banal.
- Small talk about the weather can feel banal after a while.
- His speech was full of banal phrases everyone had heard before.
- Isn't it a bit banal to end every story with a twist?
- The advertisement relied on banal slogans instead of real information.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BANAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BANAL
The 5 tiles of BANAL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BANAL
17 longer words begin with BANAL.
Shorter words from the letters in BANAL
Common questions about BANAL
- Is BANAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BANAL, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BANAL worth?
- BANAL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BANAL mean?
- So lacking in originality or freshness as to be predictable and boring; trite, commonplace.
- What letters can be added to BANAL?
- No single letter can be added to BANAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BANAL:
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