TASTE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. TASTE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TASTE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TASTE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TASTE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TASTE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TASTE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 11,618.
What stands out about TASTE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TASTE mean in Scrabble?
noun
The sense by which the tongue detects the flavour of food and drink.
Taste works through receptors on the tongue that respond mainly to sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury qualities, while much of what people call flavour actually comes from smell working alongside it. The word also names a small sample eaten to check a flavour, and it stretches further still into judgement about art, clothing or behaviour, as in good taste and bad taste. That figurative sense is centuries old and shows how a physical sense became a word for discernment generally. Both senses stay active in ordinary speech side by side.
How TASTE is used
Countable and uncountable; also a verb, taste, tasted, tasting.
- The taste of the soup needed more salt.
- He took a small taste before serving the rest.
- Her taste in furniture ran to plain wood and little else.
- A cold can dull the taste of almost anything.
- They tasted the sauce twice before agreeing it was ready.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TASTE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TASTE
The 5 tiles of TASTE in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with TASTE
17 longer words begin with TASTE.
Words ending in TASTE
5 words end in TASTE. Useful as a back hook: play TASTE onto a word already on the board.
Words with TASTE inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain TASTE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TASTE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TASTE
Showing 40 of 46. See all in the Word Finder
Common questions about TASTE
- Is TASTE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TASTE, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TASTE worth?
- TASTE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TASTE mean?
- The sense by which the tongue detects the flavour of food and drink.
- What letters can be added to TASTE?
- TASTE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TASTE:
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