What BACKHANDED Means
- adjective: (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
- adjective: roundabout or ambiguous“attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BACKHANDED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 23 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 C3 K5 H4 A1 N1 D2 E1 D2.
Words Made From The Letters In BACKHANDED
190 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
8 letter words (3)
7 letter words (1)
6 letter words (14)
5 letter words (42)
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4 letter words (58)
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3 letter words (52)
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2 letter words (20)
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