DEB is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. DEB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DEB?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DEB is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DEB
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DEB scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in DEB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,684.
What does DEB mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A debutante, in casual speech.
Deb belongs to a season that no longer exists: presentation at court ended in 1958, and the word survives mostly in writing about the decades before that. It kept a faint mockery that the full word does not carry.
How DEB is used
Countable: a deb, two debs. Dated and informal.
- The deb of the year was a title somebody actually awarded.
- Two debs and a chaperone filled the whole carriage.
- The word deb is lighter and less kind than the full one.
- Presentation at court ended and the deb went with it.
- A deb in a novel of that period arrives on page one.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DEB and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DEB
The 3 tiles of DEB in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DEB
Showing 24 of 201 words that begin with DEB.
Words ending in DEB
2 words end in DEB. Useful as a back hook: play DEB onto a word already on the board.
Words with DEB inside
Showing 24 of 53 words that contain DEB somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DEB are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DEB
Common questions about DEB
- Is DEB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DEB, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DEB worth?
- DEB is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DEB mean?
- A debutante, in casual speech.
- What letters can be added to DEB?
- DEB takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of DEB:
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