The word benight is a valid scrabble word, except in North America

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

  • benight v. (Chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
  • benight v. To darken; to shroud or obscure.
  • benight v. To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.

25 valid words from 3 definitions

BE BEFORE CHIEFLY DARKEN DARKNESS ESPECIALLY IN INTELLECTUAL IS MORAL NIGHT OBSCURE OF OR OVERTAKE OVERWHELMED PASSIVE PLUNGE REACHED SHELTER SHROUD THE TO TRAVELLER WITH

1 invalid word from 3 definitions

ETC

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

BE BEN BENI EN NIGH NIGHT

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

GI GIN IN NE NEB

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

BEDIGHT BEHIGHT BETIGHT

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

BEKNIGHT

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

BENIGHTS BENIGHTED BENIGHTEN BENIGHTER BENIGHTENS BENIGHTERS BENIGHTING BENIGHTEDLY BENIGHTENED BENIGHTINGS BENIGHTMENT BENIGHTENING BENIGHTMENTS BENIGHTEDNESS BENIGHTENINGS BENIGHTEDNESSES

One time in the middle (New word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

UNBENIGHTED

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

+A BEATHING
+K BEKNIGHT
+O BEHOTING
+R BERTHING BRIGHTEN
+S BENIGHTS

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

-B HETING
-G HENBIT
-H BETING

Scrabble scoring

  • 13 points.

Probability in scrabble (Probability to draw 7 letters at the beginning of the game to build the word.)

  • Joker allowed, 1 in 56143 chance.
  • Joker not allowed, 1 in 343098 chance.

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Categories without words

  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No lipograms (Word found when removing only one letter.)
  • No prefixes (Word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

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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