BESAW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. BESAW 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 BESAW?
| 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 BESAW is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BESAW
No single letter turns BESAW into another word.
How BESAW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BESAW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does BESAW mean in Scrabble?
verb
obsolete
To have kept watch over, minded or dealt with something, as the old irregular past tense of the obsolete verb besee.
The base form of this pair, besee, dropped out of English centuries ago, but grammar books that catalogue old irregular verbs still record besaw the way ordinary readers know saw as the past of see. A steward, a guard or a parent in an old chronicle would be described this way whenever a duty had been handled or a household kept in order while someone else was away.
How BESAW is used
Obsolete; found only in editions of very old texts, never in current writing.
- The steward besaw the accounts before the master returned home.
- She besaw the children carefully while their parents were away.
- The chronicle records that no one besaw the danger in time.
- He besaw his duties well, the old text notes with approval.
- The guard besaw the gate through the whole of that long night.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BESAW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BESAW
Common questions about BESAW
- Is BESAW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BESAW is not in it.
- How many points is BESAW worth?
- BESAW is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BESAW mean?
- To have kept watch over, minded or dealt with something, as the old irregular past tense of the obsolete verb besee.
- What letters can be added to BESAW?
- No single letter can be added to BESAW to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BESAW:
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