BIBBS is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BIBBS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BIBBS?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BIBBS is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BIBBS
No single letter turns BIBBS into another word.
How BIBBS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BIBBS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 3 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. BIBBS needs 1 blank tile.
What does BIBBS mean in Scrabble?
noun
nautical
Timber brackets bolted to a mast to give extra support to the trestletrees that carry the topmast.
On a traditional wooden sailing ship the bibbs sit just below the top of the lower mast, bolted firmly to its sides so the trestletrees resting on them can bear the load of the mast above. Shipwrights fitted a pair on each mast that needed one, and the plural form bibbs is the one that appears in rigging manuals far more often than the rare singular bibb.
How BIBBS is used
A specialist term found in shipbuilding and sailing manuals rather than everyday speech.
- The rigging plan marked exactly where the bibbs should be fastened.
- Rot had weakened the bibbs, so the shipwright cut new ones from oak.
- Without sound bibbs the trestletrees would have nothing solid to rest on.
- The old manual explains how to bolt bibbs to the foremast.
- Sailors inspected the bibbs before the mast was raised again.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BIBBS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BIBBS
Common questions about BIBBS
- Is BIBBS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BIBBS, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BIBBS worth?
- BIBBS is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BIBBS mean?
- Timber brackets bolted to a mast to give extra support to the trestletrees that carry the topmast.
- What letters can be added to BIBBS?
- No single letter can be added to BIBBS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BIBBS:
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