BECRIME is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. BECRIME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BECRIME?
| 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: 59 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BECRIME is to know. It scores 13 from 7 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BECRIME
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BECRIME scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in BECRIME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 561,432.
What does BECRIME mean in Scrabble?
verb
rare
To make someone guilty of a crime.
Here the prefix be- turns the noun crime into a verb meaning to burden with it. Becrime is quite rare and appears in legal humour or in complaints about laws that criminalise ordinary acts. Most speakers choose criminalise instead.
How BECRIME is used
Very rare, used for an ironic or satirical effect when a writer wants to becrime something.
- The new rule would becrime thousands of harmless pensioners.
- Critics said the law could becrime honest mistakes.
- He joked that the council would becrime jaywalking next.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BECRIME and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BECRIME
2 longer words begin with BECRIME.
Shorter words from the letters in BECRIME
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Common questions about BECRIME
- Is BECRIME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BECRIME, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BECRIME worth?
- BECRIME is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BECRIME mean?
- To make someone guilty of a crime.
- What letters can be added to BECRIME?
- BECRIME takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of BECRIME:
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