BECK is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BECK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BECK?
| 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 BECK is to know. It scores 12 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BECK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BECK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BECK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 81,692.
What does BECK mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
A stream, in northern England.
Beck came from Old Norse and is used only where the Vikings settled, which makes the word a rough map of the Danelaw. A separate beck means a gesture and survives in one phrase about being summoned.
How BECK is used
Countable: a beck, two becks. Northern.
- The beck runs high after a wet week.
- The word beck marks where the Vikings settled.
- At somebody's beck and call uses the other word.
- Two becks meet below the village.
- A beck in the south of England would be a brook.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BECK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BECK
15 longer words begin with BECK.
Words ending in BECK
5 words end in BECK. Useful as a back hook: play BECK onto a word already on the board.
Words with BECK inside
9 words contain BECK in the middle. Words that start with BECK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BECK
Common questions about BECK
- Is BECK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BECK, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BECK worth?
- BECK is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BECK mean?
- A stream, in northern England.
- What letters can be added to BECK?
- BECK takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BECK:
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