BOP is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BOP 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 BOP?
| 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 BOP is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bopsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOP scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in BOP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,053.
What does BOP mean in Scrabble?
noun
A style of jazz, or a dance to popular music.
Bop is clipped from bebop, and the clipping happened almost at once: the music was new in the 1940s and the short name was in print within five years. The dancing sense is British and later, and it describes something far less demanding than the music ever was.
How BOP is used
Countable and a verb. Informal in the dancing sense.
- The band played bop and cleared half the room.
- There is a bop in the union bar every Friday.
- Bop was clipped from a longer name within five years.
- They bopped about to whatever was on.
- A bop in that sense needs no skill whatever.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOP
11 longer words begin with BOP.
Words ending in BOP
3 words end in BOP. Useful as a back hook: play BOP onto a word already on the board.
Words with BOP inside
Showing 24 of 45 words that contain BOP somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BOP are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BOP
Common questions about BOP
- Is BOP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOP, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOP worth?
- BOP is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOP mean?
- A style of jazz, or a dance to popular music.
- What letters can be added to BOP?
- BOP takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of BOP:
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