Is BASKETBALL a word?
BASKETBALL is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words With Friends, has 10 letters, and can be rearranged into 0 other words, plus 60 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, BASKETBALL is a valid word.
What does basketball mean?
noun: a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop.
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
BASKETBALL: word details
- Pronunciation: BAS-kuht-bawl (approx., 3 syllables)
- Length: 10 letters, a long word. It is one of 35,784 10-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 18 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 22 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Shorter words inside basketball
Words you can make from the letters of basketball.
Solve a whole rack, not just BASKETBALL
BASKETBALL is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does BASKETBALL mean?
BASKETBALL is a noun. It means: a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop.
Is BASKETBALL a valid word?
Yes, BASKETBALL is a valid word. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.