BUBAL is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. BUBAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BUBAL?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUBAL is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUBAL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BUBAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BUBAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 2 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 522,830.
What does BUBAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A large African antelope, especially the bubal hartebeest, a now-extinct North African race once common along the edges of the Sahara.
Nineteenth-century travelers and hunters in North Africa recorded the bubal as a common sight along desert margins, describing a tall, reddish-brown antelope with a long, narrow face and sharply curved horns. Overhunting and habitat loss drove the bubal to extinction in the wild by the early twentieth century, making it one of the more thoroughly documented losses among large mammals of that period. Zoologists classify the bubal as a subspecies of the wider hartebeest group, closely related to populations that still survive elsewhere on the continent today. Older natural history texts sometimes stretch bubal to cover hartebeest antelopes more generally, well beyond the one vanished population most modern readers have in mind.
How BUBAL is used
A zoological and historical term, met mainly in natural history writing about African antelopes and the extinct bubal hartebeest in particular.
- Explorers described herds of bubal grazing near the desert oasis.
- The last wild bubal vanished from North Africa decades ago.
- A museum specimen labeled bubal hartebeest stood in the exhibit hall.
- Naturalists compared the bubal's horns with those of related hartebeest.
- Old hunting accounts mention the swift, wary bubal of the desert fringe.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUBAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BUBAL
The 5 tiles of BUBAL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BUBAL
6 longer words begin with BUBAL.
Shorter words from the letters in BUBAL
Common questions about BUBAL
- Is BUBAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUBAL, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUBAL worth?
- BUBAL is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUBAL mean?
- A large African antelope, especially the bubal hartebeest, a now-extinct North African race once common along the edges of the Sahara.
- What letters can be added to BUBAL?
- BUBAL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BUBAL:
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