BESCREENS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. BESCREENS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BESCREENS?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BESCREENS is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BESCREENS
No single letter turns BESCREENS into another word.
How BESCREENS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in BESCREENS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 3 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BESCREENS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does BESCREENS mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To hide or shelter as if behind a screen: the third person singular of bescreen.
Bescreen belongs to the be- family of verbs — bedeck, bemoan, besmirch — where the prefix turns a noun into something done thoroughly. It is now almost entirely literary, and modern uses of bescreens are nearly all echoes of one line: Juliet asking what man art thou that, thus bescreen'd in night, so stumblest on my counsel.
How BESCREENS is used
Transitive: night bescreens the garden. The participle bescreened is the commonest form.
- A row of poplars bescreens the house from the road.
- Darkness bescreens the whole approach until the last turn.
- Whatever bescreens him now will not hold past morning.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BESCREENS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BESCREENS
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Common questions about BESCREENS
- Is BESCREENS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BESCREENS, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BESCREENS worth?
- BESCREENS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BESCREENS mean?
- To hide or shelter as if behind a screen: the third person singular of bescreen.
- What letters can be added to BESCREENS?
- No single letter can be added to BESCREENS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of BESCREENS:
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