BIVIA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. BIVIA 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BIVIA?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BIVIA is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BIVIA
No single letter turns BIVIA into another word.
How BIVIA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BIVIA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does BIVIA mean in Scrabble?
noun
raretechnical
Points where a single path divides into exactly two branches.
Bivia is the plural that English borrowed from Latin bivium, a place where a road forks in two, and it survives mainly in careful writing about argument, logic or route-planning. The singular bivium is rarer still, so writers who need the idea usually reach straight for bivia.
How BIVIA is used
Rare and bookish; met in logic and geography rather than everyday speech.
- The essay maps three bivia where the argument could have gone another way.
- Old itineraries marked the bivia with a shrine or a stone.
- Each of the bivia forces a choice with no way back.
- The map shows two bivia within the first mile of the trail.
- He counted the bivia in the maze before drawing his own copy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIVIA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BIVIA
Common questions about BIVIA
- Is BIVIA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BIVIA is not in it.
- How many points is BIVIA worth?
- BIVIA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIVIA mean?
- Points where a single path divides into exactly two branches.
- What letters can be added to BIVIA?
- No single letter can be added to BIVIA to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BIVIA:
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