BASTINADO is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BASTINADO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BASTINADO?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BASTINADO is to know. It scores 12 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BASTINADO
No single letter turns BASTINADO into another word.
How BASTINADO scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in BASTINADO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BASTINADO has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BASTINADO mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A punishment or torture in which a person is beaten with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.
The bastinado was long used as a legal penalty and an interrogation method in parts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. It is also a verb meaning to inflict this beating, and the rarer form bastinade means the same thing.
How BASTINADO is used
Mostly historical or literary, describing old punishments.
- The prisoner was sentenced to the bastinado.
- Travellers wrote with horror of the bastinado in the old courts.
- He still limped from the bastinado he had endured.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BASTINADO and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BASTINADO
3 longer words begin with BASTINADO.
Shorter words from the letters in BASTINADO
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Common questions about BASTINADO
- Is BASTINADO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BASTINADO, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BASTINADO worth?
- BASTINADO is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BASTINADO mean?
- A punishment or torture in which a person is beaten with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.
- What letters can be added to BASTINADO?
- No single letter can be added to BASTINADO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of BASTINADO:
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