PLEB is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. PLEB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PLEB?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PLEB is to know. It scores 8 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PLEB
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PLEB scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PLEB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,423.
What does PLEB mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritish
A person of low social standing, in the speaker's estimation.
Pleb is short for plebeian and comes out of Roman politics, where the plebs were everybody outside the patrician families. In modern British use it says more about whoever says it than about anyone else: an accusation that a minister had used the word became a political scandal in its own right in 2012, and it has been a marked word ever since.
How PLEB is used
Countable: a pleb, two plebs. Almost always insulting; the Roman sense uses plebs for the class as a whole.
- He used the word pleb once and it followed him for years.
- Calling somebody a pleb says which side of a line you think you are on.
- The plebs of Rome had their own assembly and their own officials.
- She was treated like a pleb by every clerk in the building.
- Nobody calls themselves a pleb.
- The word pleb went from history book to headline in a week.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PLEB and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PLEB
Showing 24 of 29 words that begin with PLEB.
Words with PLEB inside
2 words contain PLEB in the middle. Words that start with PLEB are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PLEB
Common questions about PLEB
- Is PLEB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PLEB, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PLEB worth?
- PLEB is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PLEB mean?
- A person of low social standing, in the speaker's estimation.
- What letters can be added to PLEB?
- PLEB takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PLEB:
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