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Is began a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word began is a Scrabble US word. The word began is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is began a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word began is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

B3E1G2A1N1

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Yes. The word began is a Words With Friends word. The word began is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

BEGAN,BENGA,

4-letter words (9 found)

AGEN,BANE,BANG,BEAN,GAEN,GANE,GEAN,GENA,NABE,

3-letter words (18 found)

AGE,ANE,BAE,BAG,BAN,BEG,BEN,EAN,ENG,GAB,GAE,GAN,GEN,NAB,NAE,NAG,NEB,NEG,

2-letter words (10 found)

AB,AE,AG,AN,BA,BE,EA,EN,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 40 words from began according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of began

began ebgan bgean gbean egban geban beagn ebagn baegn abegn eabgn aebgn bgaen gbaen bagen abgen gaben agben egabn geabn eagbn aegbn gaebn agebn begna ebgna bgena gbena egbna gebna benga ebnga bnega nbega enbga nebga bgnea gbnea bngea nbgea gnbea ngbea egnba genba engba negba gneba ngeba beang ebang baeng abeng eabng aebng benag ebnag bneag nbeag enbag nebag baneg abneg bnaeg nbaeg anbeg nabeg eanbg aenbg enabg neabg anebg naebg bgane gbane bagne abgne gabne agbne bgnae gbnae bngae nbgae gnbae ngbae bange abnge bnage nbage anbge nabge ganbe agnbe gnabe ngabe angbe nagbe eganb geanb eagnb aegnb gaenb agenb egnab genab engab negab gneab ngeab eangb aengb enagb neagb anegb naegb ganeb agneb gnaeb ngaeb angeb nageb

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Definitions and meaning of began

began

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA(key): /bɪˈɡæn/
  • (General American, US) IPA(key): /bɪˈɡæn/
  • Rhymes: -æn
  • Hyphenation: be‧gan

Verb

began

  1. simple past of begin
  2. (obsolete) past participle of begin

Derived terms

  • beganst

Anagrams

  • Bange, abeng, benga

Middle Dutch

Verb

began

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative of beginnen

Old English

Etymology

From be- +‎ gān. Cognate with Old High German bigān.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beˈɡɑːn/

Verb

begān

  1. to bego, go over, traverse; get to, come by, fall into
  2. to go to, visit, care for, cultivate, affect
    • Se ðe æcer begǽþ. ― He who cultivates land (acre) … a farmer (Ælfc. Gr. 7; Som. 6, 44.)
  3. to occupy, inhabit, dwell, surround, besiege, overrun
    • Hí ðone búr útan beeódon. ― They surrounded the dwelling outside. (Chr. 755; Th. 83, 26, col. 1)
  4. to practise, do, engage in, perform, commit, exercise, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess; pledge, devote, train oneself
    • He begǽþ unmǽtas ― He commits gluttonies. (Deut. 21, 20)
    • Begá ðé sylfne to árfæstnysse ― Train thyself to godliness. (1 Tim. 4, 7)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • forebegān
  • misbegān
  • unbegān

Descendants

  • Middle English: bigon, begon
    • English: bego

References

  • John R. Clark Hall (1916) “begān”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
  • Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “begān”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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