BATTU is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BATTU is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BATTU?
| 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 BATTU is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BATTU
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How BATTU scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BATTU, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 69,711.
What does BATTU mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
In classical ballet, describing a step or jump performed with a beating movement of the legs against each other in the air.
A battu movement adds a quick beat of the legs, striking together or crossing rapidly, to a jump that could otherwise be performed cleanly without it, making the step visually sharper and technically harder to execute well. Terms built on the same French root appear throughout ballet vocabulary, since the word simply means "beaten" in French and describes the beating action rather than any single specific step. Dancers spend years training the precise, controlled leg action that a clean battu jump requires, since sloppy beats are immediately visible to a trained eye. The term is used almost entirely within professional ballet instruction and criticism rather than in everyday speech.
How BATTU is used
A specialist term of classical ballet vocabulary, used in training and in writing about dance technique.
- The choreography called for a series of small battu jumps.
- Her battu was crisp, with a clean, sharp beat of the legs.
- The teacher corrected his battu, telling him to beat higher and faster.
- Critics praised the precision of the dancer's battu in the variation.
- A battu step looks deceptively simple but demands years of practice.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BATTU and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BATTU
6 longer words begin with BATTU.
Words ending in BATTU
1 words end in BATTU. Useful as a back hook: play BATTU onto a word already on the board.
Words with BATTU inside
2 words contain BATTU in the middle. Words that start with BATTU are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BATTU
Common questions about BATTU
- Is BATTU valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BATTU, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BATTU worth?
- BATTU is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BATTU mean?
- In classical ballet, describing a step or jump performed with a beating movement of the legs against each other in the air.
- What letters can be added to BATTU?
- BATTU takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BATTU:
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