ARABIS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ARABIS 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 ARABIS?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARABIS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARABIS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ARABIS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ARABIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 76,649.
What does ARABIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A low, spreading garden plant of the mustard family, grown for its clusters of white or pink spring flowers; known in gardens as rock cress.
Arabis spreads in low mats over rock gardens and walls, which is why gardeners often let it spill over stone edges rather than confining it to a bed. Its small four-petalled flowers open in early spring, well before many other border plants, and cover the whole plant in a dense sheet of colour. The genus takes its scientific name straight into English, the way camellia and petunia do, so gardeners rarely need a separate common word for it. Several dozen wild species grow across the temperate regions of Europe, Asia and North America, in addition to the popular garden hybrids.
How ARABIS is used
A gardening and botanical term for a specific genus of plants, common in nursery catalogues.
- The gardener planted arabis along the top of the stone wall.
- Arabis flowers early, well before the roses.
- A patch of white arabis spilled over the rockery edge.
- The nursery sold several colours of arabis for spring planting.
- Wild arabis grows across much of temperate Europe and Asia.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARABIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARABIS
The 6 tiles of ARABIS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ARABIS
6 longer words begin with ARABIS.
Shorter words from the letters in ARABIS
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Common questions about ARABIS
- Is ARABIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARABIS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARABIS worth?
- ARABIS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARABIS mean?
- A low, spreading garden plant of the mustard family, grown for its clusters of white or pink spring flowers; known in gardens as rock cress.
- What letters can be added to ARABIS?
- ARABIS takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ARABIS:
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