beauty
BEAUTY scores 11 points in Scrabble, with Y worth 4 and B worth 3, and the six-letter word is valid in Collins, NWL2023 and ENABLE.
Noun 4 meanings
The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
Someone who is beautiful.
“Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.”
Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
“What a goal! That was a real beauty!”
Interjection 2 meanings
Thanks!
Cool!
“It's the long weekend. Beauty!”
Adjective 1 meaning
Of high quality, well done.
“He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.”
Etymology
From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.
Similar and opposite words
BEAUTY names the quality of being attractive or pleasing, and also the person who has it. A rank of 1,762 in word frequency makes it a regular in ordinary writing. Its spelling is unusual: three vowels, E, A and U, sit side by side, with a Y closing the word.
BEAUTY by the numbers
- BEAUTY has six letters and a base Scrabble score of 11.
- Y is worth 4 and B is worth 3, so those two tiles supply 7 points.
- The word has no anagrams and only one neighbour, BEAUTS.
- It ranks 1,762 in frequency, with a count of 37,515.
What does BEAUTY mean?
The main sense is the quality of being visually attractive, fine or good-looking. A second sense turns the quality into a person: someone who is beautiful. A third, broader sense covers the aspects of anything that please or satisfy.
That range is why the word shows up in advice, product names and everyday praise alike.
How well does BEAUTY play on a Scrabble board?
Tiles give B3, E1, A1, U1, T1 and Y4, a total of 11. Park the Y on a double-letter square and the word climbs by 4 more points, which beats any other single-tile boost available here.
The three consecutive vowels E, A and U make BEAUTY easy to place through a vowel-heavy rack, since only B, T and Y are consonants. If a rack holds all three of those and the vowels, the word nearly builds itself.
Which words end the same way?
The -UTY tail matches DUTY, DEPUTY, POUTY, SHOUTY and GOUTY in spelling. Among six-letter words, 1,609 begin with B, about 7 percent, and 1,678 end in Y, also about 7 percent. Check your game’s word list before trying BEAUTS, the only one-letter neighbour.
BEAUTS swaps the final Y for an S and scores only 8, because that tile drops from 4 points to 1.
Rhymes with beauty
All rhymesOne letter away
- BEAUTS8
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