LIB is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. LIB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LIB?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LIB is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LIB
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LIB scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in LIB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does LIB mean in Scrabble?
noun
Liberation, in the name of a political movement.
Lib belongs to one moment: women's lib, gay lib, animal lib, all coined between the late 1960s and the middle 1970s, when the full word was on every placard. Supporters used the clipping first and opponents took it up afterwards, which is why lib now sounds dated in a way the full word does not, and why writers reach for it to place a scene in that decade.
How LIB is used
Almost always inside a compound — women's lib, gay lib. Rarely used on its own.
- Women's lib was the phrase everyone used at the time.
- He talks about lib the way people talk about flared trousers.
- The badge said gay lib and had sat in a drawer for forty years.
- Nobody says lib now without a small note of irony.
- The archive is full of lib pamphlets nobody has read since.
- She joined the lib movement in her second year and never left it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LIB and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LIB
Showing 24 of 152 words that begin with LIB.
Words ending in LIB
2 words end in LIB. Useful as a back hook: play LIB onto a word already on the board.
Words with LIB inside
Showing 24 of 245 words that contain LIB somewhere in the middle. Words that start with LIB are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in LIB
Common questions about LIB
- Is LIB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LIB, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LIB worth?
- LIB is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LIB mean?
- Liberation, in the name of a political movement.
- What letters can be added to LIB?
- LIB takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of LIB:
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