GOBBO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. GOBBO is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GOBBO?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GOBBO is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GOBBO
No single letter turns GOBBO into another word.
How GOBBO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GOBBO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 896,280.
What does GOBBO mean in Scrabble?
noun
literaryrare
A hunchback; a person with a curved or humped back.
Gobbo comes straight from Italian, where the word simply means hunchback, and English borrowed it whole rather than translating it. It stayed rare and mostly literary, turning up chiefly in older writing and in word lists rather than in everyday speech. English already had hunchback as the ordinary term, so gobbo never displaced it and instead sat alongside it as a borrowed alternative. Dictionaries still enter gobbo, but a contemporary speaker describing someone with a curved spine would almost certainly reach for hunchback first.
How GOBBO is used
Rare and literary; hunchback is the ordinary English word for the same thing.
- The old translation calls the beggar a gobbo rather than a hunchback.
- A gobbo leaned against the doorway, waiting for coins.
- The word gobbo came into English straight from Italian.
- Few readers today would recognise gobbo without a footnote.
- He played the gobbo in the old street pageant.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GOBBO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GOBBO
Common questions about GOBBO
- Is GOBBO valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GOBBO is not in it.
- How many points is GOBBO worth?
- GOBBO is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GOBBO mean?
- A hunchback; a person with a curved or humped back.
- What letters can be added to GOBBO?
- No single letter can be added to GOBBO to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GOBBO:
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