What BLACK Means
- adjective: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light“black leather jackets”
- adjective: of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin“a great people, a black people, … injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization”
- noun: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- noun: total absence of light“they fumbled around in total darkness”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BLACK is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 L1 A1 C3 K5.
Words Made From The Letters In BLACK
16 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 (4)
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing BLACK
BLACK appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ANTIBLACKBLACKAMOORBLACKBALLBLACKBALLSBLACKBANDBLACKBANDSBLACKBERRYBLACKBIRDBLACKBIRDSBLACKBOARDBLACKBODYBLACKBOYBLACKBOYSBLACKBUCKBLACKBUCKSBLACKBUTTBLACKBUTTSBLACKCAPBLACKCAPSBLACKCOCKBLACKCOCKSBLACKDAMPBLACKDAMPSBLACKEDBLACKENBLACKENEDBLACKENERBLACKENERSBLACKENINGBLACKENSBLACKERBLACKESTBLACKFACEBLACKFACEDBLACKFACESBLACKFINBLACKFINSBLACKFISHBLACKFLIESBLACKFLY
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