BEN is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. BEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BEN?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BEN is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BEN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BEN scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What does BEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A mountain peak, especially in Scotland.
Ben is the Gaelic beinn worn down to three letters, and it stands in front of half the big Scottish hills — the word is so tied to those names that a ben on its own still reads as Scottish. The same word has a second, domestic life: in an old two-room cottage the ben is the inner room, as against the but by the door.
How BEN is used
Countable: a ben, the bens. In place names it comes first and takes a capital — Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond.
- Cloud sat on the ben all week and never lifted.
- They walked the ben in four hours and came down in two.
- From the loch you can see three bens at once.
- The ben was white to the shoulder by the end of October.
- She was raised in a cottage with a but and a ben.
- Every ben in the district has a story about somebody lost on it.
- The path up the ben is worn to bare rock.
- A ben that size makes its own weather.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BEN and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BEN
The 3 tiles of BEN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BEN
Showing 24 of 272 words that begin with BEN.
Words ending in BEN
6 words end in BEN. Useful as a back hook: play BEN onto a word already on the board.
Words with BEN inside
Showing 24 of 178 words that contain BEN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BEN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BEN
Common questions about BEN
- Is BEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BEN, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BEN worth?
- BEN is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BEN mean?
- A mountain peak, especially in Scotland.
- What letters can be added to BEN?
- BEN takes 6 hooks: 0 in front and 6 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BEN:
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