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Is BASE playable in Scrabble?

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Scrabble dictionaries

Dictionary Name Region Valid
Offcl. Scrabble Pl. Dict. & Offcl. Scrabble Words SOWPODS International / UK / Australia YES
NASPA Word List 2020 NWL2020 USA / Canada / Thailand YES
NASPA Word List 2018 NWL2018 USA / Canada / Thailand YES
Tournament Word List 2016 TWL16 USA / Canada / Thailand YES
Tournament Word List 2014 TWL14 USA / Canada / Thailand YES
Tournament Word List 2006 TWL06 USA / Canada / Thailand YES
Tournament Word List 1998 TWL98 USA / Canada / Thailand YES
Collins Scrabble Words 2019 CSW19 International / UK / Australia YES
Collins Scrabble Words 2015 CSW15 International / UK / Australia YES
Collins Scrabble Words 2012 CSW12 International / UK / Australia YES
Collins Scrabble Words 2007 CSW07 International / UK / Australia YES
Offcl. Scrabble Players Dictionary OSPD4 USA / Canada / Thailand YES
Australian Primary Schools OWL2 Australia YES
Australian Primary Schools OWL1 Australia YES
Words With Friends 2000 ENABLE2K Worldwide YES
Words With Friends 1997 (retired) ENABLE1 Worldwide YES
Letterpress Letterpress Worldwide YES
Yet Another Word List YAWL Worldwide YES
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Scrabble points

Points

6

Letters
4
Letter score

B3A1S1E1

Meaning of BASE

Definitions

Adjective

base - having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
base - not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds"
base - illegitimate
base - of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
base - debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
base - (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
base - serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"

Verb

base - situate as a center of operations; "we will base this project in the new lab"
base - use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation"
base - use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

Noun

base - any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia"
base - installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
base - a place that the runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag"
base - a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp"
base - a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base"
base - (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull"
base - (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
base - the principal ingredient of a mixture; "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"; "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"; "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base"
base - the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain"
base - (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system"
base - the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
base - the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle"
base - the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan"
base - a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
base - the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
base - lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
base - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
base - a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries
base - a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor"
base - the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice"

Adjective

  • Positive: base
  • Comparative: baser
  • Superlative: basest

Verb

  • Infinitive: (to) base
  • Simple Past: based
  • Past Participle: (have) based

Noun

  • Singular: base
  • Plural: bases

Word frequency

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Synonyms of BASE

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