BYPASS is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. BYPASS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BYPASS?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BYPASS is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BYPASS
No single letter turns BYPASS into another word.
How BYPASS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BYPASS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,759 thousand.
What stands out about BYPASS
- BYPASS gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BYPASS mean in Scrabble?
noun
A road that goes around a town to avoid its centre; also a channel or route that avoids a blocked or closed one.
A bypass lets through traffic skip the congested middle of a settlement, and many towns grew a ring road for that reason. In medicine the word names an operation in which blood is rerouted around a blocked artery, most often to the heart. Engineers use it for a pipe or circuit that carries flow past a part that is shut off. As a verb it means to go around, or to avoid a rule or a person.
How BYPASS is used
Common in road, medical and technical contexts; also a verb.
- The new bypass has taken the lorries out of the high street.
- He needed a heart bypass after the scan.
- A valve opens the bypass when the main pipe is closed.
- They built a bypass around the village in the sixties.
- Engineers fitted a bypass to keep the water flowing during repairs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BYPASS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BYPASS
3 longer words begin with BYPASS.
Shorter words from the letters in BYPASS
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Common questions about BYPASS
- Is BYPASS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BYPASS, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BYPASS worth?
- BYPASS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BYPASS mean?
- A road that goes around a town to avoid its centre; also a channel or route that avoids a blocked or closed one.
- What letters can be added to BYPASS?
- No single letter can be added to BYPASS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BYPASS:
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