BEKAH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. BEKAH 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BEKAH?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BEKAH is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BEKAH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bekahsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BEKAH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BEKAH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does BEKAH mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
An ancient unit of weight equal to half a shekel, used in the biblical world for weighing silver and gold.
A bekah served as a small, precise unit for weighing precious metal long before coins were struck to fixed values, so merchants and priests used stone or metal weights marked with its name. The term appears in the Hebrew Bible in connection with the half-shekel tax collected from each person. Because the shekel itself varied slightly between regions and periods, the exact modern equivalent of a bekah is only approximate.
How BEKAH is used
Found almost exclusively in biblical, historical and archaeological writing about ancient weights and measures.
- The inscription recorded a payment of one bekah of silver.
- Archaeologists found a stone weight marked as a bekah.
- The text sets the tax at half a shekel, or one bekah, per head.
- A bekah weight was displayed beside other ancient measures.
- Scholars debate the precise modern value of a bekah.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BEKAH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BEKAH
1 longer words begin with BEKAH.
Shorter words from the letters in BEKAH
Common questions about BEKAH
- Is BEKAH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BEKAH is not in it.
- How many points is BEKAH worth?
- BEKAH is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BEKAH mean?
- An ancient unit of weight equal to half a shekel, used in the biblical world for weighing silver and gold.
- What letters can be added to BEKAH?
- BEKAH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BEKAH:
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