BIST is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. BIST 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BIST?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BIST is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BIST
No single letter turns BIST into another word.
How BIST scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does BIST mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To be, in a dialect present-tense form heard as thee bist in northern English speech rather than in scripture.
A speaker who said thou bist was addressing one person directly with the old form of the verb be, in the same pattern as thou art or thou wast. It belongs to an older stage of English grammar and now appears mainly in reproductions of early texts or deliberately archaic writing rather than ordinary speech.
How BIST is used
Archaic; found in old or dialect texts rather than in current English.
- Thou bist welcome to this house, the old greeting ran.
- The manuscript reads where bist thou now instead of where are you now.
- He revived thou bist to give his poem an antique sound.
- The dialect speaker still says thou bist among older relatives.
- She copied the line thou bist truly kind from the medieval play.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BIST
The 4 tiles of BIST in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BIST
16 longer words begin with BIST.
Words ending in BIST
15 words end in BIST. Useful as a back hook: play BIST onto a word already on the board.
Words with BIST inside
19 words contain BIST in the middle. Words that start with BIST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BIST
Common questions about BIST
- Is BIST valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BIST is not in it.
- How many points is BIST worth?
- BIST is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIST mean?
- To be, in a dialect present-tense form heard as thee bist in northern English speech rather than in scripture.
- What letters can be added to BIST?
- No single letter can be added to BIST to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BIST:
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