What BASIC Means
- adjective: pertaining to or constituting a base or basis“a basic fact”
- adjective: reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality“a basic story line”
- noun: (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BASIC is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 S1 I1 C3.
Words Made From The Letters In BASIC
26 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.
4 letter words (7)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing BASIC
BASIC 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.