BUBBE is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 11 points
Yes for Scrabble. BUBBE is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept BUBBE?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUBBE is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUBBE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bubbesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BUBBE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BUBBE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 3 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. BUBBE needs 1 blank tile.
What does BUBBE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A Yiddish word for grandmother.
Families of Eastern European Jewish background often use bubbe as the everyday name a small child learns before any more formal title. The spelling bubbie appears just as often for the same relative, and either form travels alongside zayde, the matching word for grandfather. Such household names tend to stay in spoken family life and rarely appear in formal documents.
How BUBBE is used
Informal family speech, chiefly among Yiddish speakers and Jewish American families.
- Every Friday the grandchildren visited their bubbe for dinner.
- Bubbe always kept a tin of cookies on the counter.
- He learned to bake from watching his bubbe in the kitchen.
- The children called both grandmothers bubbe.
- Her bubbe told the same story every holiday.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUBBE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BUBBE
1 longer words begin with BUBBE.
Shorter words from the letters in BUBBE
Common questions about BUBBE
- Is BUBBE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BUBBE is not in it.
- How many points is BUBBE worth?
- BUBBE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUBBE mean?
- A Yiddish word for grandmother.
- What letters can be added to BUBBE?
- BUBBE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BUBBE:
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