What BASIS Means
- noun: a relation that provides the foundation for something“they were on a friendly footing”
- noun: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained“the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BASIS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 S1 I1 S1.
Anagrams of BASIS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BASIS
21 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 (6)
3 letter words (8)
2 letter words (7)
Longer Words Containing BASIS
BASIS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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