BENTY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. BENTY 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BENTY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BENTY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BENTY
No single letter turns BENTY into another word.
How BENTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BENTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about BENTY
- The letters of BENTY run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BENTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectregional
Overgrown with bent grass, or resembling the coarse, wiry stalks of that grass.
Bent is an old name for several tough, thin grasses that thrive on poor, sandy soil, and benty simply describes ground covered in it. Farmers used the word for pastures that had gone rough and unproductive, since the wiry stalks are unpleasant for grazing animals to eat.
How BENTY is used
Regional and dialect; used mainly in older rural writing about pasture and moorland.
- Sheep avoided the benty patch at the top of the hill.
- The survey described the field as benty and poorly drained.
- A benty slope ran down to the edge of the old quarry.
- Nothing but a benty tussock grew where the pond had dried up.
- The shepherd fenced off the benty ground to let it recover.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BENTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BENTY
Common questions about BENTY
- Is BENTY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BENTY is not in it.
- How many points is BENTY worth?
- BENTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BENTY mean?
- Overgrown with bent grass, or resembling the coarse, wiry stalks of that grass.
- What letters can be added to BENTY?
- No single letter can be added to BENTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BENTY:
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