basketball: meaning and words from its letters
10 letters · 18 letter points · starts with B · ends with L
Meaning of basketball
noun
- uncountable
A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
Example: to play basketball
- countable
The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
Listed forms: basketballs.
Source: Wiktionary — basketball.
verb
- informal, intransitive
To play basketball.
- informal, transitive
To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.
Listed forms: basketballs, basketballing, basketballed.
Source: Wiktionary — basketball.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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noun
a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
- basketball game
- hoops
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is basketball in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of basketball
B(3) + A(1) + S(1) + K(5) + E(1) + T(1) + B(3) + A(1) + L(1) + L(1) = 18 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of basketball
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from basketball
222 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in basketball. Showing up to 24, longest first.