BARREN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BARREN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BARREN?
| 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 BARREN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BARREN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
barrensChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BARREN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BARREN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,320.
What does BARREN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Producing little or nothing, especially unable to grow crops or vegetation, bear offspring, or yield useful results.
Barren describes land too poor or dry to support crops, as well as a woman or animal unable to conceive, and by extension any effort, discussion, or period that produces nothing of value. The sense of empty, unproductive land is the oldest use, going back to descriptions of soil that will not support farming no matter how it is worked. From there the word broadened to cover anything unrewarding, so that a barren argument is one that leads nowhere and a barren stretch of a career is one without achievement. In American usage, a barren can also be a noun naming a particular kind of open, sparsely wooded tract of land, as in the pine barrens found along parts of the eastern coast.
How BARREN is used
Used both literally, of land and fertility, and figuratively, of anything unproductive or without result.
- The expedition crossed miles of barren, rocky ground.
- Years of barren negotiations left the dispute unresolved.
- Doctors once wrongly assumed a barren marriage was always the woman's fault.
- Frost had left the fields barren long before harvest time.
- The old maps still label that stretch of pine forest as a barren.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BARREN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BARREN
8 longer words begin with BARREN.
Shorter words from the letters in BARREN
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Common questions about BARREN
- Is BARREN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BARREN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BARREN worth?
- BARREN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BARREN mean?
- Producing little or nothing, especially unable to grow crops or vegetation, bear offspring, or yield useful results.
- What letters can be added to BARREN?
- BARREN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BARREN:
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