What BEAT Means
- verb: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict“Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship”
- verb: give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression“Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night”
- noun: a regular route for a sentry or policeman“in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name”
- noun: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart“he could feel the beat of her heart”
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BEAT 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 E1 A1 T1.
Anagrams of BEAT (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BEAT
17 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 (8)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing BEAT
BEAT appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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