What BAIT Means
- verb: harass with persistent criticism or carping“The children teased the new teacher”
- verb: lure, entice, or entrap with bait
- noun: anything that serves as an enticement
- noun: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BAIT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 I1 T1.
Anagrams of BAIT (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BAIT
14 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (6)
2 letter words (8)
Longer Words Containing BAIT
BAIT appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.