Is COMBAT valid in Words with Friends?

Yes. Words with Friends accepts COMBAT, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.

How many points is COMBAT worth?

COMBAT is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.

What letters can be added to COMBAT?

COMBAT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

COMBAT is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points

Yes. COMBAT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.

c3o1m3b3a1t1

PlayableCOMBAT · 6 letters · 12 pts Scrabble · 15 pts WWF

12points in Scrabble

15points in Words with Friends

6letters

1hook available

1 in 344,923odds of drawing this rack

Which word lists accept COMBAT?

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: 33 / 100

33WORD POWER

Points per tile 35%

Hooks 25%

Bingo potential 20%

Tile availability 20%

4.83%

Our own measure of how useful COMBAT is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated

Hooks for COMBAT

Front hooks — 0

None.

Back hooks — 1

combats13

Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.

How COMBAT scores

Scrabble c3o1m3b3a1t1 12

Words with Friends c4o1m4b4a1t1 15

Face value of the 6 tiles in COMBAT, before any board multiplier.

Tiles you need

Letter	Needed	In the bag
c	1	2
o	1	8
m	1	2
b	1	2
a	1	9
t	1	6

Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.

What does COMBAT mean in Scrabble?

noun

Fighting between armed forces, or any violent struggle between opponents.

Combat usually names organised fighting such as battle between soldiers, and it also appears in compounds like hand-to-hand combat or combat boots. The word came into English from French. Because it is a verb as well (to combat disease), the noun and the verb are easy to tell apart only by their place in the sentence.

How COMBAT is used

Standard; common in military, sporting and figurative writing.

The soldiers had never seen combat before.
Single combat decided the fate of the siege.
He trained for years in unarmed combat.
The film opens with a scene of fierce combat at sea.
Pilots wore a combat uniform even on training flights.

Written for this site: 1 meaning of COMBAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.

Anagrams of COMBAT

tombac12

The 6 tiles of COMBAT in a different order — 1 found.

Words starting with COMBAT

combats13 combated15 combater14 combatant15 combaters15 combating16 combative18 combatted16 combatable18 combatants16 combatting17 combatively23 combativeness22 combativenesses24

14 longer words begin with COMBAT.

Shorter words from the letters in COMBAT

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Common questions about COMBAT

Is COMBAT valid in Words with Friends?: Yes. Words with Friends accepts COMBAT, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
How many points is COMBAT worth?: COMBAT is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
What does COMBAT mean?: Fighting between armed forces, or any violent struggle between opponents.
What letters can be added to COMBAT?: COMBAT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

Every word you can build from the 6 letters of COMBAT:

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