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Is BLACK 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

13

Letters
5
Letter score

B3L1A1C3K5

Meaning of BLACK

Definitions

Adjective

black - (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
black - of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
black - being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"
black - extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
black - soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
black - (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
black - stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
black - (of coffee) without cream or sugar
black - offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
black - harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
black - marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
black - (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
black - (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
black - distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

Verb

black - To make black, to blacken.
black - To apply blacking to something.
black - To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Noun

black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
black - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
black - (board games) the darker pieces
black - black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
black - popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
black - British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
black - total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"

Adjective

  • Positive: black
  • Comparative: blacker
  • Superlative: blackest

Noun

  • Singular: black
  • Plural: blacks

Word frequency

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Synonyms of BLACK

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