BEDIM is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BEDIM is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BEDIM?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BEDIM is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BEDIM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bedimsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BEDIM scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BEDIM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does BEDIM mean in Scrabble?
verb
literaryarchaic
To make dim; to darken, cloud, or obscure, especially the eyes, a light, or the mind.
To bedim something is to dull its brightness or clarity, whether tears bedim a person's eyes, fog bedims a distant light, or grief bedims the mind's clear judgement. The prefix be- intensifies the plain adjective dim, turning it into a verb meaning to actively cause dimness rather than simply to be dim. Writers reach for bedim mainly in poetic or old-fashioned prose, where a more ordinary word such as dim or cloud would feel too plain for the emotional weight of the passage. The word rarely appears in modern speech, surviving chiefly in literary and archaic English.
How BEDIM is used
Bedim is a literary, archaic verb, found mainly in older or poetic writing rather than everyday speech.
- Tears began to bedim her vision as she read the letter.
- Thick smoke would bedim the lanterns along the harbor.
- Grief seemed to bedim every joy he once felt.
- Fog bedimmed the distant lighthouse beam.
- Age had bedimmed his once-sharp memory.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BEDIM and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BEDIM
The 5 tiles of BEDIM in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BEDIM
8 longer words begin with BEDIM.
Words with BEDIM inside
1 words contain BEDIM in the middle. Words that start with BEDIM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BEDIM
Common questions about BEDIM
- Is BEDIM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BEDIM, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BEDIM worth?
- BEDIM is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BEDIM mean?
- To make dim; to darken, cloud, or obscure, especially the eyes, a light, or the mind.
- What letters can be added to BEDIM?
- BEDIM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BEDIM:
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