NUBBY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. NUBBY 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 NUBBY?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NUBBY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NUBBY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How NUBBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NUBBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,568 thousand.
What does NUBBY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Having a rough, knotted surface covered with small lumps or knobs, as in certain woven fabrics.
A nubby sweater or a nubby tweed has small raised knots woven into the yarn, giving the cloth a textured, slightly bumpy feel rather than a smooth one. The word is used mainly of fabric and yarn, though it can describe any surface covered in small, rounded bumps. Weavers and knitters value a nubby texture for the warmth and visual interest it adds to plain cloth. The bumps that make a fabric nubby come from thicker slubs of fibre spun deliberately into the yarn.
How NUBBY is used
Used mainly in describing textiles and other surfaces with a small, knotted texture.
- She chose a nubby wool throw for the back of the sofa.
- The jacket had a nubby tweed finish that felt rough under his fingers.
- His hands were nubby with old calluses from years of rope work.
- The designer liked how the nubby yarn caught the light unevenly.
- A nubby bath mat dried faster than the smooth one they replaced.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NUBBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in NUBBY
2 words end in NUBBY. Useful as a back hook: play NUBBY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in NUBBY
Common questions about NUBBY
- Is NUBBY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NUBBY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NUBBY worth?
- NUBBY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NUBBY mean?
- Having a rough, knotted surface covered with small lumps or knobs, as in certain woven fabrics.
- What letters can be added to NUBBY?
- NUBBY takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NUBBY:
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