FORB is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. FORB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FORB?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FORB is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FORB
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FORB scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in FORB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,423.
What does FORB mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A herbaceous plant that is not a grass.
Forb is used by ecologists to separate broad-leaved plants from grasses and sedges when a grassland is described. Outside that work almost nobody has ever met the word.
How FORB is used
Countable: a forb, two forbs. Technical.
- A meadow is counted as grasses and forbs separately.
- The word forb belongs to ecology and nowhere else.
- A forb is broad-leaved and a grass is not.
- Two forbs dominated the survey plot.
- Nobody outside ecology uses forb at all.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FORB and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FORB
Showing 24 of 37 words that begin with FORB.
Words with FORB inside
2 words contain FORB in the middle. Words that start with FORB are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FORB
Common questions about FORB
- Is FORB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FORB, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FORB worth?
- FORB is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FORB mean?
- A herbaceous plant that is not a grass.
- What letters can be added to FORB?
- FORB takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of FORB:
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