PUB is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PUB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PUB?
| 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 PUB is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 2.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUB
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PUB scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in PUB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,106.
What does PUB mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A place licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for drinking there.
Pub is clipped from public house, and the full phrase was a legal term rather than a description: it marked a house open to anybody as against a private club. The number in Britain has fallen by a third since 2000, and the word does more nostalgic work every year.
How PUB is used
Countable: a pub, two pubs. Chiefly British.
- The pub closed in 2019 and is flats now.
- A pub with no food will not survive the decade.
- They met in the same pub every Thursday for years.
- The phrase public house was a legal term first.
- Two pubs on one corner and both of them empty.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUB and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PUB
Showing 24 of 54 words that begin with PUB.
Words ending in PUB
2 words end in PUB. Useful as a back hook: play PUB onto a word already on the board.
Words with PUB inside
Showing 24 of 64 words that contain PUB somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PUB are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PUB
Common questions about PUB
- Is PUB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUB, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUB worth?
- PUB is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUB mean?
- A place licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for drinking there.
- What letters can be added to PUB?
- PUB takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of PUB:
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