ABBA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ABBA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ABBA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABBA is to know. It scores 8 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABBA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABBA scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ABBA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 108,923.
What stands out about ABBA
- ABBA is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ABBA mean in Scrabble?
noun
Father, as a title in early Christian usage.
Abba is Aramaic and appears untranslated in the New Testament, which is why it entered English at all. The same word, carried through Latin and French, produced abbe and abbot.
How ABBA is used
Countable. Chiefly in religious writing.
- Abba is left untranslated in the text itself.
- The word abba is Aramaic for father.
- Abbot and abbe both descend from abba.
- Early monastic writing uses abba as a title.
- Two abbas of the desert are named in the same passage.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABBA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ABBA
The 4 tiles of ABBA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ABBA
4 longer words begin with ABBA.
Words ending in ABBA
3 words end in ABBA. Useful as a back hook: play ABBA onto a word already on the board.
Words with ABBA inside
Showing 24 of 72 words that contain ABBA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ABBA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ABBA
Common questions about ABBA
- Is ABBA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ABBA, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ABBA worth?
- ABBA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABBA mean?
- Father, as a title in early Christian usage.
- What letters can be added to ABBA?
- ABBA takes 4 hooks: 3 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ABBA:
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