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Beat

/biːt/

Scrabble:6 ptsWWF:7 pts4 letters
Definition of Beat

noun

  1. A stroke; a blow.
  2. A pulsation or throb.

    "a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse"

  3. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
  4. A rhythm.
  5. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

verb

  1. To hit; strike

    "As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled."

  2. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

    "He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque."

  3. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  4. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
  5. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.

    "I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game."

adjective

  1. Exhausted

    "After the long day, she was feeling completely beat."

  2. Dilapidated, beat up

    "Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys."

  3. Fabulous

    "Her makeup was beat!"

  4. Boring
  5. (of a person) ugly
Anagrams of Beat

3 words can be made by rearranging all the letters of "beat":

abetbatebeta

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "beat" and rearranging:

+aabate
+dbated
+gbegat
+hbathe
+lblatebleattable
+rtaber
+sabetsbastebatesbeastbeats
+tbetta
+ubeauttubae
Related Word Patterns
BE...Words starting with "be"...ATWords ending with "at"All 4-letter wordsUnscramble "beat"
Synonyms & Antonyms
Letter Values
b3
e1
a1
t1

Total: 6 Scrabble points

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Rhymes With Beat
achromatacrobataerobataerosataerostatafloatairboatamadavatanastigmatantifatantistatapparat
Related 4-Letter Words
baalbaasbabababebabubabybachbackbadebadsbaffbagsbahtbailbait

Word Validity & Sources

SOWPODS (International Scrabble): Valid
TWL (US/Canada Scrabble): Valid
Words With Friends: Valid
Last verified: December 2024

Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.

About the Word "Beat"

Beat is a 4-letter word that scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "beat" can be rearranged to form 3 other valid words.

Using "Beat" in Word Games

When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "beat" is a low-scoring word.