Scrabble Dictionary
Check words in the Scrabble dictionary and make sure they are valid for play.
BACKGROUND
Scrabble Validity
Valid UK Scrabble Word
Confirmed in SOWPODS / CSW24 (UK & International Scrabble).
Dictionary memberships:
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US) — US Scrabble validity
- ENABLE (Words with Friends) — Words With Friends validity
- SOWPODS / CSW24 (UK & International Scrabble) — UK Scrabble validity
Tile Values
B
3
A
1
C
3
K
5
G
2
R
1
O
1
U
1
N
1
D
2
Σ
20
Definitions
Verb
- understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"
Noun
- scenery hung at back of stage
- (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"
- information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
- relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
- extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured; "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting"
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word BACKGROUND
Yes, BACKGROUND is valid for UK Scrabble according to SOWPODS / CSW24 (UK & International Scrabble). If you play it, you can score 20 points in Scrabble.
BACKGROUND is a 10-letter word. It contains 3 vowels and 7 consonants.