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BEAT
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
B
3
E
1
A
1
T
1
Σ
6
Definitions
Verb
- wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
- be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
- 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"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
- hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"
- stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
- shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
- make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
- move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"
- move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
- move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
- glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"
- make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
- make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
- avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
- be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
Noun
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"
- a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word BEAT
Yes, BEAT is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 6 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
BEAT is a 4-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 2 consonants.