The word bess is not 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.)

  • Bess prop.n. A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
  • Bess prop.n. (LGBT, slang) A term applied to a fellow gay man, usually preceding an admonition.
  • BESS prop.n. (Military, US) Initialism of Basic Enlisted Submarine School.

24 valid words from 3 definitions

ADMONITION AN APPLIED BASIC DIMINUTIVE ENLISTED FELLOW FEMALE GAY GIVEN INITIALISM MAN MILITARY NAME OF PRECEDING SCHOOL SLANG SUBMARINE TERM THE TO US USUALLY

2 invalid words from 3 definitions

ELIZABETH LGBT

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

BE BES ES ESS

18 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

BASS BEDS BEES BEGS BELS BENS BEST BETS BEYS BOSS BUSS CESS FESS JESS LESS MESS NESS SESS

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

BES ESS

3 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

BESES BESTS BLESS

4 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

ABBESSES ABESSIVE ABESSIVES NABOBESSES

2 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

ABBESS NABOBESS

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

+A BASES BASSE SABES
+E BESES
+I BISES
+L BLESS SLEBS
+N SNEBS
+T BESTS
+U BUSES

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

-B ESS
-S BES

Scrabble scoring

  • Zero, invalid.
  • 6 points, without game rules.

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Categories without words

  • No words-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word.)
  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No suffixes (Word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

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