BEAK is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BEAK 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 BEAK?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BEAK is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BEAK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BEAK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BEAK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does BEAK mean in Scrabble?
noun
A bird's horny projecting jaws.
Beak is British slang for a magistrate and for a schoolmaster, and both senses are eighteenth-century with no agreed explanation. The bird sense came through French from a Celtic word.
How BEAK is used
Countable: a beak, two beaks.
- A beak shaped like that eats one thing and nothing else.
- The word beak is British slang for a magistrate.
- Up before the beak means in front of a magistrate.
- The bird sense of beak came through French.
- Two beaks of the same length on different species.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BEAK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BEAK
The 4 tiles of BEAK in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BEAK
11 longer words begin with BEAK.
Words ending in BEAK
5 words end in BEAK. Useful as a back hook: play BEAK onto a word already on the board.
Words with BEAK inside
9 words contain BEAK in the middle. Words that start with BEAK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BEAK
Common questions about BEAK
- Is BEAK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BEAK, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BEAK worth?
- BEAK is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BEAK mean?
- A bird's horny projecting jaws.
- What letters can be added to BEAK?
- BEAK takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BEAK:
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