BAST is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. BAST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BAST?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BAST is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BAST
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BAST scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BAST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What stands out about BAST
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BAST mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanytechnical
Tough fibrous material taken from the inner bark of certain trees, used to make rope, matting and string.
Bast comes from the inner bark of trees such as the lime, where long, strong fibres run beneath the outer bark and can be stripped away, dried and twisted into cord or woven into mats. Botanists also use bast as another name for the phloem, the tissue inside a plant that carries food made in the leaves down to the roots and other parts.
How BAST is used
Found mainly in writing about crafts, traditional rope-making and plant biology.
- The weavers stripped bast from young lime branches.
- Mats were woven from dried bast fibre.
- Bast fibre made a strong, cheap rope for the boat.
- Under the microscope the bast tissue carried sugars down the stem.
- Craftsmen twisted bast into cord for baskets.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BAST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BAST
The 4 tiles of BAST in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with BAST
Showing 24 of 59 words that begin with BAST.
Words ending in BAST
3 words end in BAST. Useful as a back hook: play BAST onto a word already on the board.
Words with BAST inside
Showing 24 of 27 words that contain BAST somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BAST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BAST
Common questions about BAST
- Is BAST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BAST, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BAST worth?
- BAST is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BAST mean?
- Tough fibrous material taken from the inner bark of certain trees, used to make rope, matting and string.
- What letters can be added to BAST?
- BAST takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BAST:
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