ABBED is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. ABBED is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ABBED?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABBED is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 7 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABBED
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ABBED scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ABBED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does ABBED mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Having well-developed and visible abdominal muscles.
Abbed grew out of the shortened noun abs for abdominal muscles, turned into an adjective the same way muscled or toned describe a build. It is used almost entirely about physical fitness, describing someone whose stomach muscles are defined enough to see, and it belongs firmly to casual, spoken description rather than to any technical or medical vocabulary.
How ABBED is used
Informal; used in casual talk about fitness and appearance, not in medical writing.
- The trainer showed off an abbed physique on the gym poster.
- Months of training left him noticeably more abbed than before.
- The magazine cover featured an abbed actor promoting the film.
- She joked that no amount of crunches had made her abbed yet.
- The comic drew the hero as impossibly abbed and broad-shouldered.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABBED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in ABBED
24 words end in ABBED. Useful as a back hook: play ABBED onto a word already on the board.
Words with ABBED inside
5 words contain ABBED in the middle. Words that start with ABBED are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ABBED
Common questions about ABBED
- Is ABBED valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ABBED is not in it.
- How many points is ABBED worth?
- ABBED is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABBED mean?
- Having well-developed and visible abdominal muscles.
- What letters can be added to ABBED?
- ABBED takes 7 hooks: 7 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ABBED:
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