BATEAU is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BATEAU 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 BATEAU?
| 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 BATEAU is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BATEAU
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bateauxChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How BATEAU scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BATEAU, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What stands out about BATEAU
- BATEAU runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BATEAU mean in Scrabble?
noun
nauticalNorth American
A light, flat-bottomed boat, traditionally used by fur traders and settlers to travel the rivers and lakes of Canada and the northern United States.
French colonists brought the word bateau, simply French for boat, to North America, where it came to mean specifically the shallow, flat-bottomed craft built to carry cargo and passengers over rapids and shallow water that would ground a deeper-hulled vessel. Fur traders and soldiers relied on the bateau to move supplies along waterways with no roads nearby, and the plural bateaux still appears in histories of colonial exploration. Modern recreational versions of the bateau are still built and raced in parts of Quebec and New England, keeping the old name alive.
How BATEAU is used
Chiefly historical and regional, met in accounts of Canadian and northern American river travel rather than in everyday boating talk.
- Voyageurs loaded furs onto the bateau before the river froze.
- The museum displayed a restored eighteenth-century bateau.
- Soldiers ferried supplies upriver in a flat-bottomed bateau.
- The festival features a race of traditional bateau replicas.
- A bateau could carry more cargo than a birchbark canoe.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BATEAU and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BATEAU
1 longer words begin with BATEAU.
Shorter words from the letters in BATEAU
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Common questions about BATEAU
- Is BATEAU valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BATEAU, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BATEAU worth?
- BATEAU is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BATEAU mean?
- A light, flat-bottomed boat, traditionally used by fur traders and settlers to travel the rivers and lakes of Canada and the northern United States.
- What letters can be added to BATEAU?
- BATEAU takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BATEAU:
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