BARBE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. BARBE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BARBE?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BARBE is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BARBE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BARBE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BARBE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does BARBE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A piece of pleated white linen or lace worn around the neck and under the chin, especially by nuns as part of their habit or, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as part of formal mourning dress.
Nuns of certain orders wore the barbe folded closely under the chin and pinned to the wimple, so that only a narrow band of white cloth framed the lower part of the face beneath the veil. Court mourning dress of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries adapted the same idea for laywomen, who wore a barbe drawn up over the chin as a visible sign of grief, with the height to which it was worn sometimes indicating the closeness of the relationship to the deceased. Portrait painters of the period recorded the barbe carefully, since its exact style and position could reveal a sitter's rank or degree of mourning to viewers of the time. Costume historians and museum curators now use barbe mainly to describe surviving portraits and garments from this specific period of European dress.
How BARBE is used
A historical costume term, used chiefly by costume historians and in descriptions of religious habits and formal mourning dress of past centuries.
- The portrait showed the widow wearing a barbe drawn high over her chin.
- Museum records described the nun's habit and its plain white barbe.
- Costume historians study how the barbe changed shape across the centuries.
- Court mourning required ladies to wear a barbe of the correct style.
- The exhibit included a fragile linen barbe from the seventeenth century.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BARBE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BARBE
The 5 tiles of BARBE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BARBE
Showing 24 of 29 words that begin with BARBE.
Words with BARBE inside
3 words contain BARBE in the middle. Words that start with BARBE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BARBE
Common questions about BARBE
- Is BARBE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BARBE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BARBE worth?
- BARBE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BARBE mean?
- A piece of pleated white linen or lace worn around the neck and under the chin, especially by nuns as part of their habit or, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as part of formal mourning dress.
- What letters can be added to BARBE?
- BARBE takes 5 hooks: 0 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BARBE:
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