BATHOS is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BATHOS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BATHOS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BATHOS is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BATHOS
No single letter turns BATHOS into another word.
How BATHOS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BATHOS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 172,461.
What does BATHOS mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
An abrupt and often unintended drop from lofty or serious writing into the ordinary or ridiculous, producing an effect of anticlimax.
Bathos is what happens when a solemn speech or poem suddenly lands on something trivial, as when a tragic hero dies and the next line mentions his laundry. Writers use it deliberately for comedy, but a critic more often names it as a flaw when the fall is accidental. The word comes from the Greek for depth, and it was given its literary sense by Alexander Pope, who wrote a mocking essay on the art of sinking in poetry.
How BATHOS is used
Literary criticism; sometimes confused with pathos, which is a different thing.
- The solemn ode ends in bathos with a rhyme about soup.
- A moment of bathos spoiled the dramatic speech.
- Critics mocked the bathos of the final scene.
- Comic bathos works by pairing grand words with petty matters.
- There is a touch of bathos in calling the war a minor inconvenience.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BATHOS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BATHOS
The 6 tiles of BATHOS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BATHOS
1 longer words begin with BATHOS.
Shorter words from the letters in BATHOS
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Common questions about BATHOS
- Is BATHOS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BATHOS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BATHOS worth?
- BATHOS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BATHOS mean?
- An abrupt and often unintended drop from lofty or serious writing into the ordinary or ridiculous, producing an effect of anticlimax.
- What letters can be added to BATHOS?
- No single letter can be added to BATHOS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BATHOS:
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