BOUNTY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BOUNTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOUNTY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOUNTY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOUNTY
No single letter turns BOUNTY into another word.
How BOUNTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BOUNTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What does BOUNTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A generous amount of something, or a reward offered for catching a person or killing a pest.
In its gentler sense a bounty is abundance, as in the bounty of the harvest or the bounty of a kind host. In another sense it is a payment from an authority for a specific deed, such as capturing an outlaw or destroying a wolf. The two meanings share an origin in the Latin bonitas, goodness, which also gave English the word bonus.
How BOUNTY is used
Both senses are common; the reward sense is frequent in stories of the old West and in game talk.
- The autumn bounty filled every barrel in the cellar.
- The sheriff put a bounty on the bandit.
- We gave thanks for the bounty of the table.
- Farmers once earned a bounty for each fox they killed.
- A bounty of wild berries grew along the path.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOUNTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOUNTY
2 longer words begin with BOUNTY.
Shorter words from the letters in BOUNTY
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Common questions about BOUNTY
- Is BOUNTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOUNTY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOUNTY worth?
- BOUNTY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOUNTY mean?
- A generous amount of something, or a reward offered for catching a person or killing a pest.
- What letters can be added to BOUNTY?
- No single letter can be added to BOUNTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BOUNTY:
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