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Is behoof a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word behoof is a Scrabble US word. The word behoof is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is behoof a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word behoof is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

B3E1H4O1O1F4

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6-letter words (1 found)

BEHOOF,

4-letter words (5 found)

BOHO,BOOH,HOBO,HOOF,OBOE,

3-letter words (15 found)

BOH,BOO,FEH,FOB,FOE,FOH,FOO,HOB,HOE,HOO,OBE,OBO,OHO,OOF,OOH,

2-letter words (12 found)

BE,BO,EF,EH,FE,HE,HO,OB,OE,OF,OH,OO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 34 words from behoof according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of behoof

behoof

Etymology

From Middle English behoof, behof, from Old English behōf, from Proto-West Germanic *bihōf. Akin to Dutch behoef, German Behuf (“necessity”), Danish behov (“requirement”) (from Middle Low German). Related to have and heave.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɪˈhuːf/

Noun

behoof (countable and uncountable, plural behoofs)

  1. (dated) That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.
    • 1676, Joseph Glanvill, Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, London: John Baker & Henry Mortlock, Essay 7, “The Summe of My Lord Bacon’s NEW ATLANTIS,” p. 58,[1]
      […] very useful for a Divine, and like to be of more behoof to him, than all the tedious volumes of the Schoolmen […]
    • 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, Men’s Wives, New York: Appleton, “The Ravenswing,” Chapter 4, p. 119,[3]
      Poor Larkins had no one to make epigrams in her behoof; her mother was at home tending the younger ones, her father abroad following the studies of his profession, she had but one protector, as she thought, and that one was Baroski.
    • 1919, Saki, ‘The Penance’, The Toys of Peace, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 423:
      They had parents in India—that much Octavian had learned in the neighbourhood; the children, beyond grouping themselves garment-wise into sexes, a girl and two boys, carried their life-story no further on his behoof.

Usage notes

  • Mainly found in phrases like "on (the/his/our/etc) behoof (of)".

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:behoof.

Related terms

  • behoove
  • behovely

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