BULBAR is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BULBAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BULBAR?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BULBAR is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BULBAR
No single letter turns BULBAR into another word.
How BULBAR scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BULBAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 2 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What does BULBAR mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Relating to the medulla oblongata, the lowest part of the brainstem, or to a bulb-shaped structure of the body.
Doctors meet this word mostly in the phrase bulbar palsy, a condition in which the nerves controlling the tongue, throat and jaw weaken, so speech and swallowing become hard. The root is the Latin word for an onion-shaped bulb, which the lower brainstem was thought to resemble. Do not confuse it with the everyday sense of a plant bulb, since in medicine it nearly always points to the brainstem.
How BULBAR is used
Technical; found in neurology and in descriptions of speech and swallowing problems.
- The neurologist suspected a bulbar disorder because her speech had slurred.
- Bulbar symptoms include trouble swallowing and a weak voice.
- The report described a bulbar form of the disease.
- Early bulbar weakness affected his tongue first.
- She read a paper on bulbar function in older patients.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BULBAR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BULBAR
Common questions about BULBAR
- Is BULBAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BULBAR, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BULBAR worth?
- BULBAR is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BULBAR mean?
- Relating to the medulla oblongata, the lowest part of the brainstem, or to a bulb-shaped structure of the body.
- What letters can be added to BULBAR?
- No single letter can be added to BULBAR to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BULBAR:
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