BOHEA is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BOHEA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOHEA?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOHEA is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOHEA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
boheasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOHEA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOHEA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does BOHEA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A black tea from China, traditionally regarded as an inferior grade because it comes from the last, coarsest crop of the season.
Bohea takes its name from the Wuyi hills in Fujian province, an early center of Chinese tea production that European traders reached in the seventeenth century, and English writers used bohea loosely for ordinary black tea long before finer graded teas became common at home. Eighteenth-century letters and novels mention bohea constantly as the everyday drink of the tea table, ranked well below costlier teas such as pekoe. Today the word survives mainly in historical writing and old recipes rather than on modern tea packaging.
How BOHEA is used
Chiefly historical; met in eighteenth and nineteenth century writing rather than current tea vocabulary.
- The ledger recorded a shipment of bohea alongside sugar and spice.
- Guests were offered bohea rather than the costlier green tea.
- The novel describes a maid pouring bohea for the visiting relatives.
- Merchants sold bohea cheaply compared with the finer grades of tea.
- Historians cite the tax on bohea as a spark for colonial protest.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOHEA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BOHEA
The 5 tiles of BOHEA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BOHEA
1 longer words begin with BOHEA.
Shorter words from the letters in BOHEA
Common questions about BOHEA
- Is BOHEA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOHEA, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOHEA worth?
- BOHEA is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOHEA mean?
- A black tea from China, traditionally regarded as an inferior grade because it comes from the last, coarsest crop of the season.
- What letters can be added to BOHEA?
- BOHEA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOHEA:
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