BIRTHDAY is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. BIRTHDAY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BIRTHDAY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BIRTHDAY is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BIRTHDAY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
birthdaysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BIRTHDAY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in BIRTHDAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so BIRTHDAY has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about BIRTHDAY
- All 8 letters of BIRTHDAY are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BIRTHDAY mean in Scrabble?
noun
The yearly return of the date on which a person was born, often marked with a celebration.
A birthday usually brings cards, gifts and a cake with candles, though customs differ between cultures. The same word is used for institutions and places, as in a company birthday. Strictly, the day of birth itself is the first one, and every later one is an anniversary of it.
How BIRTHDAY is used
Birthday is an everyday word used for personal and organisational anniversaries.
- Her birthday falls in the middle of March.
- We baked a cake for his seventh birthday.
- The town celebrated its two-hundredth birthday with fireworks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIRTHDAY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BIRTHDAY
1 longer words begin with BIRTHDAY.
Shorter words from the letters in BIRTHDAY
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Common questions about BIRTHDAY
- Is BIRTHDAY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BIRTHDAY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BIRTHDAY worth?
- BIRTHDAY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIRTHDAY mean?
- The yearly return of the date on which a person was born, often marked with a celebration.
- What letters can be added to BIRTHDAY?
- BIRTHDAY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of BIRTHDAY:
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