ANABAS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ANABAS 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 ANABAS?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANABAS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANABAS
No single letter turns ANABAS into another word.
How ANABAS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ANABAS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 3 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 295,648.
What does ANABAS mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A small freshwater fish, popularly known as the climbing perch, able to survive out of water and drag itself short distances over land.
Anabas lives in ponds, swamps and rice paddies across Africa and southern Asia, and it can survive for long periods out of water thanks to an organ that lets it breathe air directly. The fish uses its stiff fins and gill covers to drag itself over damp ground, which is how it earned the popular name climbing perch even though it does not truly climb trees. Anabas is often kept in aquariums and studied by biologists interested in fish that tolerate low-oxygen water.
How ANABAS is used
A zoological term used mainly in biology and aquarium-keeping contexts.
- The pond was full of anabas that had survived the dry season.
- An anabas can breathe air when the water grows stagnant.
- Fishermen found an anabas stranded on the muddy bank.
- The aquarium display included several anabas from Southeast Asia.
- Biologists study anabas to understand air-breathing fish.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANABAS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ANABAS
2 longer words begin with ANABAS.
Shorter words from the letters in ANABAS
Common questions about ANABAS
- Is ANABAS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANABAS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANABAS worth?
- ANABAS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANABAS mean?
- A small freshwater fish, popularly known as the climbing perch, able to survive out of water and drag itself short distances over land.
- What letters can be added to ANABAS?
- No single letter can be added to ANABAS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ANABAS:
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