JOB is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. JOB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JOB?
| 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 JOB is to know. It scores 12 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JOB
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JOB scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in JOB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,106.
What does JOB mean in Scrabble?
noun
Work done for pay, or a particular piece of work.
The word carries two scales at once: it can mean a career or a single afternoon's task, and English rarely troubles to separate them. The older sense is the second — a piece taken on and finished — and it survives in job lot and jobbing builder, where nothing about a career is meant at all.
How JOB is used
Countable: a job, two jobs. Common attributively — job lot, job centre.
- He took the job because it was five minutes from home.
- The whole job took a morning and cost a fortune.
- A jobbing builder does small work and moves on.
- She bought the lot as a job and sorted it later.
- Two jobs in the same week is one too many.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JOB and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JOB
Showing 24 of 33 words that begin with JOB.
Words ending in JOB
4 words end in JOB. Useful as a back hook: play JOB onto a word already on the board.
Words with JOB inside
19 words contain JOB in the middle. Words that start with JOB are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in JOB
Common questions about JOB
- Is JOB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JOB, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JOB worth?
- JOB is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JOB mean?
- Work done for pay, or a particular piece of work.
- What letters can be added to JOB?
- JOB takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of JOB:
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