BIGHA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. BIGHA 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 11 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept BIGHA?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BIGHA is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BIGHA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bighasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BIGHA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BIGHA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 77,456.
What does BIGHA mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian English
A traditional South Asian unit of land area, roughly a third of an acre to a full acre depending on the region.
Farmers and land records across India, Nepal and Bangladesh have long measured fields in bigha rather than in acres or hectares, and the exact size shifts from one state or district to another. A deed that lists five bigha in one province may describe a noticeably different area than the same figure in another, which is why modern surveys often convert it to a fixed metric value.
How BIGHA is used
Common in Indian and South Asian land records and everyday rural speech, rarely used elsewhere.
- The family owned three bigha of rice paddy near the river.
- A single bigha in that district equals just under a third of an acre.
- The land dispute concerned how many bigha each brother had inherited.
- Farmers still price small plots by the bigha rather than by the acre.
- The survey converted the old bigha figures into hectares for the new map.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIGHA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BIGHA
1 longer words begin with BIGHA.
Shorter words from the letters in BIGHA
Common questions about BIGHA
- Is BIGHA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BIGHA, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BIGHA worth?
- BIGHA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIGHA mean?
- A traditional South Asian unit of land area, roughly a third of an acre to a full acre depending on the region.
- What letters can be added to BIGHA?
- BIGHA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BIGHA:
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