DOBIE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. DOBIE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DOBIE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOBIE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOBIE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
dobiesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DOBIE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DOBIE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,892.
What does DOBIE mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectNorth American
A sun-dried, unburnt brick used in building, especially in the American Southwest; a dialectal variant of adobe.
Ranch hands and settlers in the American Southwest often clipped adobe down to dobie in everyday speech, describing the same mud-and-straw bricks dried in the sun rather than fired in a kiln. A wall or house built from dobie stays cool in hot climates because the thick material insulates well against heat. Older cowboy narratives and regional writing use dobie where more formal texts would simply say adobe.
How DOBIE is used
Regional, informal variant of adobe, chiefly heard in older Southwestern American speech.
- They built the old ranch house from dobie brick.
- The wall of dobie had stood for over a century.
- Rain slowly wore away the exposed dobie surface.
- Settlers shaped dobie bricks and left them to dry in the sun.
- The mission's thick dobie walls kept the rooms cool.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOBIE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DOBIE
The 5 tiles of DOBIE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DOBIE
1 longer words begin with DOBIE.
Shorter words from the letters in DOBIE
Common questions about DOBIE
- Is DOBIE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOBIE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOBIE worth?
- DOBIE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOBIE mean?
- A sun-dried, unburnt brick used in building, especially in the American Southwest; a dialectal variant of adobe.
- What letters can be added to DOBIE?
- DOBIE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DOBIE:
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