BOOB is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BOOB 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 BOOB?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOOB is to know. It scores 8 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOOB
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOOB scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in BOOB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 2 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 140,044.
What stands out about BOOB
- BOOB is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BOOB mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A foolish mistake; also, a foolish person.
Boob in these senses is a shortening of booby and is American, from about 1900. A separate anatomical sense is unrelated to it and arrived some thirty years later.
How BOOB is used
Countable. A separate sense is anatomical.
- A boob in the third paragraph that nobody caught.
- The word boob is short for booby.
- Two boobs in one press release.
- A separate sense of boob is unrelated and later.
- Boob meaning a mistake is American and from about 1900.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOOB and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BOOB
The 4 tiles of BOOB in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BOOB
22 longer words begin with BOOB.
Words ending in BOOB
1 words end in BOOB. Useful as a back hook: play BOOB onto a word already on the board.
Words with BOOB inside
1 words contain BOOB in the middle. Words that start with BOOB are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BOOB
Common questions about BOOB
- Is BOOB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOOB, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOOB worth?
- BOOB is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOOB mean?
- A foolish mistake; also, a foolish person.
- What letters can be added to BOOB?
- BOOB takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of BOOB:
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