BLOAT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BLOAT 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 BLOAT?
| 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 BLOAT 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 BLOAT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bloatsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BLOAT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BLOAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does BLOAT mean in Scrabble?
verb
To swell or cause to swell, typically with fluid or trapped gas, so that a body, object, or system becomes noticeably distended.
People most often use bloat to describe the uncomfortable swelling of the stomach after a heavy or gas-producing meal, but the word reaches well beyond the body: a budget, a piece of software, or a company's workforce can all bloat if it grows larger than is useful or healthy. In farming, bloat is also the name of a serious and sometimes fatal condition in cattle and sheep caused by a dangerous buildup of gas in the stomach after grazing on rich pasture. Because the word almost always implies an unhealthy or excessive kind of swelling, it carries a slightly negative tone that a neutral word like swell does not.
How BLOAT is used
Common in everyday speech about the body and food, and used figuratively for anything that grows uncomfortably oversized.
- Too much salty food can make your stomach bloat overnight.
- The farmer worried the cattle would bloat after eating the fresh clover.
- Critics said the sequel let the plot bloat with unnecessary subplots.
- The software update made the program bloat to twice its previous size.
- A dead fish will bloat with gas as it decomposes in warm water.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BLOAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BLOAT
10 longer words begin with BLOAT.
Shorter words from the letters in BLOAT
Common questions about BLOAT
- Is BLOAT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BLOAT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BLOAT worth?
- BLOAT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BLOAT mean?
- To swell or cause to swell, typically with fluid or trapped gas, so that a body, object, or system becomes noticeably distended.
- What letters can be added to BLOAT?
- BLOAT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BLOAT:
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