BOVID is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BOVID 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 BOVID?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOVID is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOVID
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bovidsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOVID scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOVID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does BOVID mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A hoofed, cud-chewing mammal belonging to the family that includes cattle, goats, sheep, bison and antelope.
Zoologists group a bovid under the family Bovidae, unified by unbranched horns that are never shed and by a stomach built to digest tough, fibrous plant matter through repeated chewing. The family spans small forest duikers through to massive wild oxen, so a bovid from one branch can look strikingly different from a bovid in another while still sharing the same skeletal and digestive traits. Herders have domesticated several branches of the family for milk, meat, wool and labour over thousands of years. The term also functions as an adjective, describing horns, teeth or herd behaviour typical of this wide-ranging group.
How BOVID is used
A technical zoological term, used mainly in scientific and reference writing rather than everyday speech.
- The zoo built a new enclosure for its bovid species.
- A wildebeest is a bovid closely related to cattle.
- Researchers studied horn growth across several bovid families.
- Every bovid in the exhibit chews its food twice.
- The textbook lists bison as North America's largest bovid.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOVID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOVID
1 longer words begin with BOVID.
Shorter words from the letters in BOVID
Common questions about BOVID
- Is BOVID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOVID, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOVID worth?
- BOVID is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOVID mean?
- A hoofed, cud-chewing mammal belonging to the family that includes cattle, goats, sheep, bison and antelope.
- What letters can be added to BOVID?
- BOVID takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOVID:
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