Common 10-letter words that start with B
With their Scrabble points and, for the first 16, a short meaning, most used first.
- background★20a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
- businesses★12an occupation, profession, or trade
- basketball★18a team sport involving throwing a ball into a hoop
- biological★15pertaining to biology or to life and living things
- bankruptcy★23a state of complete lack of some abstract property
- boundaries★13a dividing line
- behavioral★18of or relating to behavior
- beneficial★17promoting or enhancing well-being
- blackberry★23large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of…
- bargaining★14the act of bargaining
- binoculars★14a field-glass
- biomedical★17relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine
- breakfasts★19the first meal of the day (usually in the morning)
- brightness★16the quality of being bright
- benchmarks★23to evaluate against a standard
- broadcasts★15message that is transmitted by radio or television
All 1,857 words
10-letter words starting with BA (437)
Top score: BATHMIZVAH, 32 points
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10-letter words starting with BE (359)
Top score: BELSHAZZAR, 33 points (tied with one other). Babylonian general and son of Nebuchadnezzar II
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10-letter words starting with BH (1)
Top score: BHIKKHUNIS, 26 points
10-letter words starting with BI (234)
Top score: BIOHAZARDS, 25 points. a biological hazard
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10-letter words starting with BL (181)
Top score: BLIZZARDLY, 34 points. resembling a blizzard
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10-letter words starting with BO (197)
Top score: BODYCHECKS, 27 points (tied with one other). to block an opposing player with one's body
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10-letter words starting with BR (272)
Top score: BRACHYAXES, 27 points (tied with two others)
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10-letter words starting with BU (170)
Top score: BUMFUZZLED, 36 points. to confuse
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10-letter words starting with BY (6)
Top score: BYPRODUCTS, 20 points. a secondary product
About these words
- 1,857 of the 38,003 10-letter words start with B (5%).
- 1,276 are good in NWL2023, 1,816 in Collins Scrabble Words, 1,274 in WOW24 and 969 in the Words With Friends list. 45 are everyday words.
- In Scrabble points, bumfuzzled scores the most (36), then bumfuzzles (35), then blizzardly and buzzkiller (34 each), then two words on 33.