BITTEN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BITTEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BITTEN?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BITTEN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BITTEN
No single letter turns BITTEN into another word.
How BITTEN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BITTEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,320.
What does BITTEN mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botanyzoology
Ending abruptly as though torn or snapped off, rather than tapering to a natural point.
Naturalists use bitten in this technical sense to describe a leaf, root or antenna that stops suddenly with a rough, uneven edge, as if something had bitten the tip away. The term appears mainly in older botanical and zoological description, where it is paired with the more formal Latin term premorse. This is a separate, specialised sense from the everyday past form of bite, which simply reports that teeth broke the skin; here bitten describes the fixed shape of a structure, not a single event. A bitten leaf tip is a useful identifying feature because it looks so different from a smoothly rounded or pointed one.
How BITTEN is used
A specialist descriptive term in older natural history writing, uncommon in general speech.
- The guide called the root tip bitten, meaning it ended abruptly rather than tapering.
- Under the lens, the leaf showed a distinctly bitten margin at its lower edge.
- Older field manuals use bitten where a modern one would simply say premorse.
- The insect's clubbed antenna looked bitten, as though the last segment had been sheared off.
- She noted the bitten shape of the frond as a clue to the plant's identity.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BITTEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about BITTEN
- Is BITTEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BITTEN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BITTEN worth?
- BITTEN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BITTEN mean?
- Ending abruptly as though torn or snapped off, rather than tapering to a natural point.
- What letters can be added to BITTEN?
- No single letter can be added to BITTEN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BITTEN:
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