JIBER is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. JIBER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JIBER?
| 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: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JIBER is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JIBER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
jibersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JIBER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JIBER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does JIBER mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A person who jibes or gibes at others, making mocking or taunting remarks.
A jiber is someone whose habit is to jibe, meaning to throw out sharp, mocking comments meant to needle or belittle another person. The word is simply jibe with the agent suffix -er attached, matching the older spelling gibe and its own agent form giber. It turns up mostly in older or informal writing about quarrels and taunting rather than in ordinary modern conversation.
How JIBER is used
Used to name the person doing the mocking, rather than the mocking remark itself.
- The crowd sided with the jiber rather than with the man he mocked.
- A constant jiber soon finds that people stop listening to him.
- She answered the jiber with a sharper joke of her own.
- No one enjoyed sitting near the office jiber during meetings.
- The old play casts the servant as a jiber who mocks his master.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JIBER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JIBER
1 longer words begin with JIBER.
Shorter words from the letters in JIBER
Common questions about JIBER
- Is JIBER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JIBER, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JIBER worth?
- JIBER is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JIBER mean?
- A person who jibes or gibes at others, making mocking or taunting remarks.
- What letters can be added to JIBER?
- JIBER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JIBER:
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