BISTRE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BISTRE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BISTRE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BISTRE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BISTRE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BISTRE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BISTRE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What stands out about BISTRE
- The same 6 tiles also spell 6 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BISTRE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A warm brownish-yellow pigment traditionally made by boiling soot scraped from burned wood, used for drawing and wash painting.
Artists have used bistre since at least the sixteenth century, prizing it for the soft transparent wash it produces when diluted with water, quite unlike the flat coverage of an opaque paint. The pigment is closely related to sepia and to the American spelling bister, and old master drawings in bistre can still be seen in museum collections today. Because it comes from wood smoke rather than a mineral or dye, the exact shade of bistre varies depending on the wood that was burned. Rembrandt and other Dutch masters were especially fond of bistre wash for shading their pen drawings.
How BISTRE is used
A specialist term from art history and drawing technique, rarely heard outside that context.
- The museum label described the sketch as pen and bistre wash on paper.
- He mixed the bistre with water to get a lighter shading tone.
- Collectors prize old drawings done in bistre for their warm, smoky brown tint.
- The restorer identified bistre rather than ink in the centuries-old sketch.
- Bistre gave the landscape drawing its soft, sepia-like glow.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BISTRE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BISTRE
The 6 tiles of BISTRE in a different order — 6 found.
Words starting with BISTRE
2 longer words begin with BISTRE.
Shorter words from the letters in BISTRE
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Common questions about BISTRE
- Is BISTRE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BISTRE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BISTRE worth?
- BISTRE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BISTRE mean?
- A warm brownish-yellow pigment traditionally made by boiling soot scraped from burned wood, used for drawing and wash painting.
- What letters can be added to BISTRE?
- BISTRE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BISTRE:
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