BETE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. BETE 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 6 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept BETE?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BETE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BETE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BETE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BETE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,951.
What does BETE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicdialect
To mend or improve something, especially to build up or rekindle a fire.
To bete a fire meant to feed it with fresh fuel so that it burned better, a household task as ordinary in earlier centuries as switching on a heater is today. The word belongs to old and dialect English and has long been replaced by mend, feed or make up in describing the same action.
How BETE is used
Archaic; found in older texts and dialect glossaries rather than in current speech.
- The servant rose in the night to bete the dying fire.
- They would bete the hearth before the household woke.
- To bete a flame in old cottages meant piling on more peat.
- The old word bete has been replaced by mend in modern speech.
- He learned to bete a fire from his grandmother's stories.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BETE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BETE
The 4 tiles of BETE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BETE
12 longer words begin with BETE.
Words ending in BETE
1 words end in BETE. Useful as a back hook: play BETE onto a word already on the board.
Words with BETE inside
7 words contain BETE in the middle. Words that start with BETE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BETE
Common questions about BETE
- Is BETE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BETE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BETE worth?
- BETE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BETE mean?
- To mend or improve something, especially to build up or rekindle a fire.
- What letters can be added to BETE?
- BETE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BETE:
Open BETE in the Word Finder