BANT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. BANT 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 BANT?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BANT is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BANT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BANT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,051.
What does BANT mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To diet in order to lose weight.
Bant comes from a person: a London undertaker named Banting who shed a great deal of weight in the 1860s by giving up bread, sugar and beer, then published the details at his own expense. The pamphlet sold so well that his surname turned into a verb, and to bant was for a while the ordinary way to say what we now say with diet.
How BANT is used
Intransitive: he banted for a year. The related noun is banting, still used for the eating plan itself.
- He banted through the winter and lost two stone.
- Half the club was banting by the end of the season.
- Her doctor told her to bant and handed over the pamphlet.
- They banted together and gave up together.
- To bant in those days meant giving up bread first.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BANT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BANT
24 longer words begin with BANT.
Words ending in BANT
9 words end in BANT. Useful as a back hook: play BANT onto a word already on the board.
Words with BANT inside
13 words contain BANT in the middle. Words that start with BANT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BANT
Common questions about BANT
- Is BANT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BANT is not in it.
- How many points is BANT worth?
- BANT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BANT mean?
- To diet in order to lose weight.
- What letters can be added to BANT?
- BANT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BANT:
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