What BETA Means
- adjective: second in order of importance“the candidate, considered a beta male, was perceived to be unable to lead his party to victory”
- adjective: preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product“a beta version”
- noun: the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BETA 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 T1 A1.
Anagrams of BETA (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BETA
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 BETA
BETA 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.