Yes, beat is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

2. Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

3. Hit repeatedly

4. Move rhythmically

5. Shape by beating

6. Make a rhythmic sound

7. Glare or strike with great intensity

8. Move with a thrashing motion

9. Sail with much tacking or with difficulty

10. Stir vigorously

11. Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music

12. Be superior

13. Avoid paying

14. Make a sound like a clock or a timer

15. Move with a flapping motion

16. Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks

17. Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

18. Make by pounding or trampling

19. Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly

20. Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

21. Beat through cleverness and wit

22. Be a mystery or bewildering to

23. Wear out completely

Adjective

1. Very tired

Noun

1. A regular route for a sentry or policeman

2. The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

3. The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

4. A single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

5. A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

6. The sound of stroke or blow

7. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

8. A regular rate of repetition

9. A stroke or blow

10. The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing