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Is beats a Scrabble word?

Yes, beats is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of beats?

Definition

noun (English)

1. a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks, beats

2. a regular route for a sentry or policemanExamples: "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"Synonyms: beat, round

3. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heartExamples: "he could feel the beat of her heart"Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulsation, pulse

4. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of musicExamples: "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"Synonyms: beat, musical rhythm, rhythm

5. a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillationsSynonyms: beat

6. a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behaviorSynonyms: beat, beatnik

verb (English)

1. come out better in a competition, race, or conflictExamples: "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish

2. give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggressionExamples: "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"Synonyms: beat, beat up, work over

3. hit repeatedlyExamples: "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"Synonyms: beat

4. move rhythmicallyExamples: "Her heart was beating fast"Synonyms: beat, pound, thump

5. shape by beatingExamples: "beat swords into ploughshares"Synonyms: beat

6. make a rhythmic soundExamples: "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"Synonyms: beat, drum, thrum

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "beats"?

Scrabble
7 points
B3
E1
A1
T1
S1
Words With Friends
8 points
B4
E1
A1
T1
S1

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