BIG is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. BIG is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BIG?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BIG is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BIG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BIG scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BIG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,994.
What does BIG mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Of considerable size.
Big and large differ in a way nobody is taught and everybody follows: big carries feeling and large carries measurement, so a big mistake is never a large one. The word turned up in the fourteenth century from somewhere nobody has traced.
How BIG is used
Before and after the noun. The comparative is bigger.
- A big mistake and a large mistake are not the same thing.
- The house is big and cold in equal measure.
- He made a big thing of a small problem.
- Two big dogs and one small gate.
- The word big has no traceable origin.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BIG
The 3 tiles of BIG in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BIG
Showing 24 of 92 words that begin with BIG.
Words ending in BIG
1 words end in BIG. Useful as a back hook: play BIG onto a word already on the board.
Words with BIG inside
Showing 24 of 40 words that contain BIG somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BIG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BIG
Common questions about BIG
- Is BIG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BIG, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BIG worth?
- BIG is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIG mean?
- Of considerable size.
- What letters can be added to BIG?
- BIG takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BIG:
Open BIG in the Word Finder