BAWD is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BAWD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BAWD?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BAWD is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BAWD
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BAWD scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BAWD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 27,231.
What does BAWD mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A woman in charge of a brothel.
Bawd is archaic and survives mostly in writing about the theatre of its period, where the character was a stock type. The adjective built on it is far commoner and has softened into meaning merely rude.
How BAWD is used
Countable: a bawd, two bawds. Archaic.
- A bawd in a Restoration comedy is a fixed character type.
- The word bawd is archaic outside historical writing.
- The adjective built on bawd is much commoner than the noun.
- Two bawds in one play is unusual even for that period.
- Nobody has used bawd seriously in two centuries.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BAWD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BAWD
16 longer words begin with BAWD.
Shorter words from the letters in BAWD
Common questions about BAWD
- Is BAWD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BAWD, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BAWD worth?
- BAWD is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BAWD mean?
- A woman in charge of a brothel.
- What letters can be added to BAWD?
- BAWD takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BAWD:
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