BEGAD is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. BEGAD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BEGAD?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BEGAD is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BEGAD
No single letter turns BEGAD into another word.
How BEGAD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BEGAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about BEGAD
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BEGAD mean in Scrabble?
interjection
archaicinformal
A mild, euphemistic oath meaning by God, used to express surprise, emphasis or strong feeling.
A speaker who exclaims begad is softening the stronger oath by God into a form thought less shocking in polite company, much as gosh softens God in later, gentler slang. Older English drama and fiction, from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, often gave begad to blustering or excitable characters as a verbal tic marking strong reaction to surprising news. The word overlaps closely with bedad, a similar euphemism strongly associated with Irish speech, though begad itself appears more broadly across older British writing without being tied to any one region. Modern readers meet begad almost exclusively in older texts or in deliberately old-fashioned dialogue, since the expression has otherwise fallen out of use.
How BEGAD is used
Archaic and informal; met mainly in older fiction and drama, where it marks a character's strong surprise or emphasis through a mild oath.
- Begad, sir, that is the finest horse I have ever seen.
- The old colonel would shout begad at the slightest provocation.
- Begad! she exclaimed, dropping the letter in astonishment.
- He swore begad under his breath when the coach overturned.
- The novel's comic squire punctuates every speech with begad.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BEGAD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BEGAD
The 5 tiles of BEGAD in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in BEGAD
Common questions about BEGAD
- Is BEGAD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BEGAD, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BEGAD worth?
- BEGAD is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BEGAD mean?
- A mild, euphemistic oath meaning by God, used to express surprise, emphasis or strong feeling.
- What letters can be added to BEGAD?
- No single letter can be added to BEGAD to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BEGAD:
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