BORT is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. BORT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BORT?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BORT is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BORT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BORT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BORT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,808.
What does BORT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A low-quality, granular form of diamond used as an abrasive for cutting and drilling.
Bort lacks the clarity needed for a gemstone. Instead of being cut and polished, it is crushed into powder or used in small pieces to grind and cut harder materials. Diamond is the hardest natural substance, which is why even low-grade bort still works well as an abrasive.
How BORT is used
Technical; used in mining and industrial contexts rather than everyday speech.
- The drill bit was tipped with bort for extra hardness.
- Miners sorted the gem-quality stones from the bort.
- Bort is too cloudy to be cut into jewellery.
- The workshop used powdered bort to polish hard stone.
- A shipment of bort arrived for the cutting tools factory.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BORT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BORT
8 longer words begin with BORT.
Words ending in BORT
1 words end in BORT. Useful as a back hook: play BORT onto a word already on the board.
Words with BORT inside
Showing 24 of 29 words that contain BORT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BORT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BORT
Common questions about BORT
- Is BORT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BORT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BORT worth?
- BORT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BORT mean?
- A low-quality, granular form of diamond used as an abrasive for cutting and drilling.
- What letters can be added to BORT?
- BORT takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BORT:
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