BARBAL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BARBAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BARBAL?
| 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 BARBAL is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BARBAL
No single letter turns BARBAL into another word.
How BARBAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BARBAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 2 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What does BARBAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Relating to a beard.
Barbal is a seldom-seen word built on the Latin root for beard, the same root that gives us barber. It belongs to the vocabulary of anatomy and of old-fashioned description, where a writer wanted to speak of hair on the chin without using a plain phrase. Most readers will meet it only in word lists or in unusually formal prose.
How BARBAL is used
Rare and technical; ordinary writing uses a phrase such as of the beard.
- The doctor noted a barbal rash along the jaw.
- His barbal growth came in thick and dark.
- The clinic treated barbal infections caused by shaving.
- A barbal tuft hung from the old man's chin.
- The poem makes a barbal joke about the wizard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BARBAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BARBAL
Common questions about BARBAL
- Is BARBAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BARBAL, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BARBAL worth?
- BARBAL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BARBAL mean?
- Relating to a beard.
- What letters can be added to BARBAL?
- No single letter can be added to BARBAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BARBAL:
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