ADBOT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ADBOT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ADBOT?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ADBOT is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ADBOT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
adbotsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ADBOT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ADBOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does ADBOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
informaltechnical
An automated computer program that generates, posts, or displays advertisements.
Adbot blends ad, short for advertisement, with bot, a program that runs automated tasks, to name software built purely to push advertising. Some adbots flood online forums, comment sections, or social media with promotional posts, while others operate quietly on a computer to display targeted ads based on collected data. The word belongs to informal, internet-era vocabulary rather than to older, formal dictionaries.
How ADBOT is used
Informal and technology-related; used mainly in discussions of spam, online advertising, and computer security.
- The forum banned dozens of accounts run by the same adbot.
- An adbot flooded the comment section with links overnight.
- Security software flagged the program as an adbot.
- Users complained that an adbot kept spamming the group chat.
- The company built an adbot to serve targeted ads on the site.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ADBOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ADBOT
1 longer words begin with ADBOT.
Shorter words from the letters in ADBOT
Common questions about ADBOT
- Is ADBOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ADBOT, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ADBOT worth?
- ADBOT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ADBOT mean?
- An automated computer program that generates, posts, or displays advertisements.
- What letters can be added to ADBOT?
- ADBOT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ADBOT:
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