BUND is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. BUND is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BUND?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUND is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUND
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BUND scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BUND, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,423.
What does BUND mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian English
An embankment or dyke, especially one built to control flooding or retain water in South Asia.
A bund is usually built from packed earth or stone along a riverbank, canal, or paddy field. Farmers in South Asia often maintain a bund to direct irrigation water and to keep low-lying land from flooding during heavy rain.
How BUND is used
Chiefly used in Indian and South Asian English for such embankments.
- Workers repaired the bund before the monsoon rains arrived.
- The village built a new bund to protect the rice fields.
- Cattle grazed along the top of the earthen bund.
- Several bunds crisscrossed the low-lying delta region.
- The flood breached the old bund overnight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUND and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BUND
Showing 24 of 29 words that begin with BUND.
Words ending in BUND
6 words end in BUND. Useful as a back hook: play BUND onto a word already on the board.
Words with BUND inside
Showing 24 of 33 words that contain BUND somewhere in the middle. Words that start with BUND are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BUND
Common questions about BUND
- Is BUND valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUND, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUND worth?
- BUND is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUND mean?
- An embankment or dyke, especially one built to control flooding or retain water in South Asia.
- What letters can be added to BUND?
- BUND takes 6 hooks: 0 in front and 6 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BUND:
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