ABER is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. ABER 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ABER?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABER is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABER scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ABER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,026.
What stands out about ABER
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ABER mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
A Welsh word for the mouth of a river or the point where two rivers meet.
Aber is borrowed from Welsh, where it names the place a river reaches the sea or joins a larger stream. English speakers meet it chiefly inside place names such as Aberdeen and Aberystwyth, where aber forms the first part and describes exactly this kind of confluence. As a stand-alone word it survives mainly in geography glossaries and word lists rather than in everyday speech.
How ABER is used
Rare outside Welsh place names; met in gazetteers and specialist word lists.
- The old map marked an aber where the stream widened before the bay.
- In Welsh place names, an aber shows where a river meets the sea.
- Aberdeen takes its name from the aber of the River Dee.
- The guide explained that an aber is simply a river mouth.
- Few people use the word aber outside of place-name study.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ABER
The 4 tiles of ABER in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ABER
19 longer words begin with ABER.
Words ending in ABER
5 words end in ABER. Useful as a back hook: play ABER onto a word already on the board.
Words with ABER inside
Showing 24 of 52 words that contain ABER somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ABER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ABER
Common questions about ABER
- Is ABER valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ABER is not in it.
- How many points is ABER worth?
- ABER is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABER mean?
- A Welsh word for the mouth of a river or the point where two rivers meet.
- What letters can be added to ABER?
- ABER takes 4 hooks: 3 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ABER:
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