The word backstop is a valid scrabble word

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • backstop n. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
  • backstop n. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
  • backstop n. (Baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.

28 valid words from 3 definitions

ALL ARRANGEMENT BACK BASEBALL BEHIND DEFAULT ELSE FAILS FENCE HOLD HOLDS HOME IF IN OF OR PERSON PLATE PUT REAR REINFORCE SOMETHING SUPPORT THAT THE THING TO WALL

9 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word.)

BA BAC BACK BACKS OP ST STOP TO TOP

6 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

AB CAB PO POT POTS TSK

3 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

BACKSTOPS BACKSTOPPED BACKSTOPPING

3 anagrams plus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word plus a letter.)

+L BLACKSPOT BLACKTOPS
+S BACKSTOPS

Scrabble scoring

  • 18 points.

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Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No cousins (Word found by changing only one letter.)
  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)
  • Not found in the middle (Word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)
  • No prefixes (Word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)
  • No anagrams can be formed by removing a letter (New word formed with all the letters of the word minus a letter.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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