BECKE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. BECKE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BECKE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BECKE is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BECKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BECKE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BECKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 285,180.
What does BECKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
An old spelling of beak, the horny projecting mouthpart of a bird, used by the poet Edmund Spenser.
Becke is simply an older way of writing beak that turns up in Spenser and other early poets, at a time when spelling was far less fixed than it is now. It refers to the same hard, pointed mouthpart found on birds that modern writers spell beak. The form survives today only in quotations from and discussions of older poetry, not in ordinary description.
How BECKE is used
Archaic and literary; encountered only in older poetry or in editions that keep the original spelling.
- The poem describes a hawk sharpening its becke on a stone.
- Editors sometimes modernise becke to beak for modern readers.
- Spenser gives the bird a cruel becke in that stanza.
- The old text speaks of a becke curved like a hook.
- A footnote explains that becke is simply an older spelling of beak.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BECKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BECKE
4 longer words begin with BECKE.
Shorter words from the letters in BECKE
Common questions about BECKE
- Is BECKE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BECKE is not in it.
- How many points is BECKE worth?
- BECKE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BECKE mean?
- An old spelling of beak, the horny projecting mouthpart of a bird, used by the poet Edmund Spenser.
- What letters can be added to BECKE?
- BECKE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BECKE:
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