BIS is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. BIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BIS?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BIS is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BIS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How BIS scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does BIS mean in Scrabble?
adverb
Twice — used in music to mark a repeat.
Bis is Latin for twice and reached English through music and through French, where an audience shouts it instead of encore. On the continent it also appears in street addresses, marking a second building that shares one number with another.
How BIS is used
Chiefly a direction in printed music.
- The score is marked bis over the second phrase.
- A French audience shouts bis rather than encore.
- The address is fourteen bis and it confuses deliveries.
- The word bis is Latin for twice.
- A passage marked bis is played through again.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BIS
The 3 tiles of BIS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BIS
Showing 24 of 120 words that begin with BIS.
Words ending in BIS
Showing 24 of 31 words that end in BIS. Useful as a back hook: play BIS onto a word already on the board.
Words with BIS inside
Showing 24 of 176 words that contain BIS somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BIS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BIS
Common questions about BIS
- Is BIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BIS, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BIS worth?
- BIS is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIS mean?
- Twice — used in music to mark a repeat.
- What letters can be added to BIS?
- BIS takes 6 hooks: 2 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BIS:
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