BEGAT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BEGAT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BEGAT?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BEGAT is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BEGAT
No single letter turns BEGAT into another word.
How BEGAT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BEGAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does BEGAT mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To father, sire, or bring into being -- the archaic past tense of beget, familiar chiefly from the genealogies of the King James Bible.
Begat is the word the King James translators used over and over in the opening chapters of Genesis and elsewhere, in lines such as Adam begat Seth, and that repetition is why the form is remembered long after the rest of the tense system it belonged to fell out of use. Modern English has replaced it almost entirely with begot or fathered, so a writer who reaches for begat today is usually doing so deliberately, for solemn or comic effect rather than as ordinary grammar. Outside quotation or imitation of scripture, the word barely survives in everyday speech.
How BEGAT is used
Archaic; encountered almost entirely in biblical quotation or in writing that deliberately imitates that style.
- The chapter lists who begat whom across ten generations.
- He joked that the family tree read like Abraham begat Isaac.
- The old translation says that Noah begat three sons.
- She quoted the verse where Jacob begat Joseph.
- The comedian mocked the long list of who begat whom.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BEGAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BEGAT
Common questions about BEGAT
- Is BEGAT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BEGAT, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BEGAT worth?
- BEGAT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BEGAT mean?
- To father, sire, or bring into being -- the archaic past tense of beget, familiar chiefly from the genealogies of the King James Bible.
- What letters can be added to BEGAT?
- No single letter can be added to BEGAT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BEGAT:
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