BUSMAN is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BUSMAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BUSMAN?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUSMAN is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUSMAN
No single letter turns BUSMAN into another word.
How BUSMAN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BUSMAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What does BUSMAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A man who drives a bus or works on one as a job.
The word is best known from the phrase busman's holiday, meaning a break spent doing something very like your daily work, such as a driver who tours by coach on his days off. Used on its own it feels a little old-fashioned, and modern writers usually say bus driver. The plural is busmen.
How BUSMAN is used
Rather dated; survives mainly in the idiom about a busman's holiday.
- The busman waited at the depot for his shift.
- My uncle was a busman in Leeds for thirty years.
- Every busman knows the tricky corners on that route.
- The old busman tipped his cap to the passengers.
- A busman learns to read traffic before it happens.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUSMAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BUSMAN
The 6 tiles of BUSMAN in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in BUSMAN
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Common questions about BUSMAN
- Is BUSMAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUSMAN, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUSMAN worth?
- BUSMAN is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUSMAN mean?
- A man who drives a bus or works on one as a job.
- What letters can be added to BUSMAN?
- No single letter can be added to BUSMAN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BUSMAN:
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