HOBBING is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. HOBBING is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOBBING?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOBBING is to know. It scores 15 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOBBING
No single letter turns HOBBING into another word.
How HOBBING scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in HOBBING, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,176 thousand.
What does HOBBING mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A machining process in which a rotating cutter called a hob shapes the teeth of gears.
Hobbing is one of the main ways factories turn a blank metal disc into a gear. The hob and the blank rotate together while the cutter feeds across, cutting each tooth in turn. Splines and sprocket teeth are made the same way.
How HOBBING is used
Hobbing is a manufacturing term, found in engineering texts and machine shop talk.
- The workshop does gear hobbing on a large automatic machine.
- Hobbing is faster than cutting each tooth separately by milling.
- The sprocket was finished by hobbing and then hardened.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOBBING and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in HOBBING
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Common questions about HOBBING
- Is HOBBING valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOBBING, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOBBING worth?
- HOBBING is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOBBING mean?
- A machining process in which a rotating cutter called a hob shapes the teeth of gears.
- What letters can be added to HOBBING?
- No single letter can be added to HOBBING to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of HOBBING:
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