BISON is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BISON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BISON?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BISON is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BISON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bisonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BISON scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BISON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does BISON mean in Scrabble?
noun
A large, heavily built wild ox with a shaggy mane and forequarters, native to North America and parts of Europe, and often called buffalo in North America.
North American bison once roamed the plains in herds numbering in the millions before nineteenth-century hunting drove the species close to extinction, a history that makes the bison a lasting symbol of the American frontier and of conservation recovery. A closely related but distinct species, the European bison or wisent, survives today mainly in protected forests such as Poland's Bialowieza Forest, having also nearly disappeared in the twentieth century. Although many North Americans call the animal buffalo in everyday speech, true buffalo are a different group of animals found in Africa and Asia, and bison remains the scientifically accurate name.
How BISON is used
A common word in everyday speech and in wildlife, conservation, and historical writing about North American and European wild cattle.
- A herd of bison grazed quietly on the open prairie.
- The park reintroduced bison after decades of local extinction.
- Hunters nearly wiped out the American bison in the nineteenth century.
- The European bison is smaller in number than its American cousin.
- Tourists stopped their car to photograph a bison beside the road.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BISON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BISON
2 longer words begin with BISON.
Words with BISON inside
1 words contain BISON in the middle. Words that start with BISON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BISON
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Common questions about BISON
- Is BISON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BISON, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BISON worth?
- BISON is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BISON mean?
- A large, heavily built wild ox with a shaggy mane and forequarters, native to North America and parts of Europe, and often called buffalo in North America.
- What letters can be added to BISON?
- BISON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BISON:
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