PUBE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. PUBE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 8 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept PUBE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PUBE is to know. It scores 8 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUBE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
pubesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PUBE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PUBE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,423.
What does PUBE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
An informal term for a single pubic hair.
Pube is a back-formation, created by speakers who assumed the plural pubes must have a singular the way ears has ear, even though pubes had long stood on its own. Dictionaries treat pube as recent casual usage rather than an old coinage, since it shows up mainly in everyday speech and online writing rather than older print. Doctors and textbooks keep the fuller clinical phrase instead of adopting the shortened form.
How PUBE is used
Informal singular form; more formal contexts use the term pubic hair instead.
- She found a stray pube on the towel.
- He joked about a single pube on his chin.
- A pube got caught in the zipper.
- Even one pube was enough to notice on the sheet.
- The tweezers removed a single pube.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUBE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PUBE
10 longer words begin with PUBE.
Words with PUBE inside
14 words contain PUBE in the middle. Words that start with PUBE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PUBE
Common questions about PUBE
- Is PUBE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUBE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUBE worth?
- PUBE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUBE mean?
- An informal term for a single pubic hair.
- What letters can be added to PUBE?
- PUBE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PUBE:
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