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Backgrounds

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noun · verb · 11 letters · Very common · plural and third-person singular form of background

  • Scrabble US & Canada : valid
  • Scrabble UK & worldwide : valid
  • Words With Friends : valid
  • Wordle : not valid

What does backgrounds mean?

noun

  1. a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

    “he is a lawyer with a sports background”

  2. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

    “he posed her against a background of rolling hills”

    Synonymsground

  3. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

    “the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident”

    Synonymsbackground knowledge

  4. extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

    “they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals”

    Synonymsbackground signal

  5. relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

    “when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background”

  6. the state of the environment in which a situation exists

    “you can't do that in a university setting”

    Synonymssettingscope

verb

  1. understate the importance or quality of

    “he played down his royal ancestry”

    Synonymsplay downdownplay

Definitions shown for background, the base form of backgrounds.

Is BACKGROUNDS a valid word?

Game / word listValid?
Scrabble US & Canada (NWL / TWL) Yes
Scrabble UK & worldwide (Collins / SOWPODS) Yes
Words With Friends (ENABLE) Yes
Wordle (guess list) No

How many points is BACKGROUNDS worth?

Scrabble

21 pts
b 3a 1c 3k 5g 2r 1o 1u 1n 1d 2s 1

Words With Friends

26 pts
b 4a 1c 4k 5g 3r 1o 1u 2n 2d 2s 1

Wordfeud

25 pts
b 4a 1c 4k 5g 3r 1o 1u 2n 1d 2s 1

NYT Crossplay

26 pts
b 4a 1c 3k 6g 4r 1o 1u 2n 1d 2s 1

Scores are the sum of the tile values, before premium squares or bingo bonuses.

Words from the letters in BACKGROUNDS

Words that end like BACKGROUNDS

Common words that share the ending -OUNDS, handy for rhymes, poems and wordplay. Matches are based on spelling, so a few may not rhyme exactly.

surroundsbloodhoundsplaygroundsdumbfoundsgreyhoundscompoundsconfoundsastoundsexpoundsimpoundsreboundsresoundsaboundsgroundspoundssoundsundergroundsboundsfoundsroundsforegroundshoundsmoundswounds
All words ending in -OUNDS

Backgrounds: quick answers

Is BACKGROUNDS a valid Scrabble word?
Yes. BACKGROUNDS is accepted in both the North American (NWL) and the international Collins Scrabble word lists, and scores 21 points before board bonuses.
How many points is BACKGROUNDS worth?
BACKGROUNDS scores 21 points in Scrabble, 26 in Words With Friends, 25 in Wordfeud and 26 in NYT Crossplay. These are plain tile totals, before any double- or triple-letter and word squares.
What does backgrounds mean?
backgrounds is the plural and third-person singular form of background, which means “a person's social heritage: previous experience or training”. It has 7 meanings in total, listed above.
What words can you make with the letters in BACKGROUNDS?
You can make 971 shorter words from BACKGROUNDS, such as BACKGROUND, BURDOCKS, BURDOCK, RUNBACKS. See the full list.