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Is beat a Scrabble word?

Yes, beat is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of beat?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.

2. A rhythm.

3. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

4. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especiallyExamples: "to walk the beat"; "There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road. Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss."; "[…]the rise of embedding police into schools – so-called School Resource Officers (SROs), who are employed by the local police, but whose “beat” is a school. Those officers report to the local police department and not the school, and can, and frequently do, have different priorities."broadly

5. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especiallyExamples: "As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession."Synonyms: newsbeatbroadly

6. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.Examples: "It's a beat on the whole country."dated

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To hit; to strike.Examples: "As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled."; "Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall […]"; "The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack."Synonyms: knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack, abuse, aggress, assailtransitive

2. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.Examples: "He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque."transitive

3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.Examples: "[…] the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door […]"; "The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die."; "This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves."intransitive

4. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.Examples: "A thousand hearts beat happily."; "O heart, how fares it with thee now, ⁠That thou should’st fail from thy desire, ⁠Who scarcely darest to inquire, ‘What is it makes me beat so low?’"intransitive

5. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.Examples: "Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row."; "No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him."; "I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game."transitive

6. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.intransitive

verb (English)

1. (especially colloquial) past participle of beatcolloquialespeciallyform-ofparticiplepast

adj (English)

1. (US slang) Exhausted.Examples: "After the long day, she was feeling completely beat."; "I stayed in San Francisco a week and had the beatest time of my life. Marylou and I walked around for miles, looking for food-money."USslang

2. (slang) Dilapidated, beat up.Examples: "Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys."slang

3. (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.Examples: "Her face was beat for the gods!"

4. (slang) Boring.slang

5. (slang, of a person) Ugly.slang

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "beat"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "beat"?

Scrabble
6 points
B3
E1
A1
T1
Words With Friends
7 points
B4
E1
A1
T1

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