BETONY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BETONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BETONY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BETONY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BETONY
No single letter turns BETONY into another word.
How BETONY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BETONY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 86,231.
What does BETONY mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A hairy plant of the mint family with spikes of purple flowers, once widely used as a medicinal herb.
Wood betony grows in meadows and open woods across Europe and has crowded heads of reddish-purple blooms. Medieval herbals prized betony as a cure for headaches and many other complaints, and a proverb recommended it above almost every other herb. Other plants that look like it are named after it, as in water betony.
How BETONY is used
A plant name, met in botany, folk medicine and herbal history.
- The betony was in flower along the edge of the wood.
- Her grandmother dried betony for tea every summer.
- Purple spikes of betony nodded in the hay meadow.
- The old herbal praised betony as a remedy for headaches.
- A bee worked its way down a stalk of betony.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BETONY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BETONY
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Common questions about BETONY
- Is BETONY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BETONY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BETONY worth?
- BETONY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BETONY mean?
- A hairy plant of the mint family with spikes of purple flowers, once widely used as a medicinal herb.
- What letters can be added to BETONY?
- No single letter can be added to BETONY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BETONY:
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