RUBOUT is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. RUBOUT 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 RUBOUT?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RUBOUT is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RUBOUT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ruboutsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RUBOUT scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RUBOUT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What does RUBOUT mean in Scrabble?
noun
slangNorth American
A killing, especially a planned murder of one criminal by another; also the act of rubbing something out.
Rubout grew out of the plain image of wiping a mark from a surface, and in American slang it came to mean removing a person for good. Crime writers of the twentieth century used it for a gangland killing, and the word still carries that hard-boiled flavour. In a literal and rarer sense it can name the act of erasing something by rubbing.
How RUBOUT is used
Mostly slang from crime stories; the literal sense of erasing is uncommon.
- The newspaper described the rubout as the work of a rival gang.
- He was afraid he was next in line for a rubout.
- Nobody saw the rubout, and nobody talked about it afterwards.
- The old detective novel opens with a rubout in a hotel lobby.
- A careless rubout of the pencil lines left a grey smear on the page.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RUBOUT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RUBOUT
1 longer words begin with RUBOUT.
Shorter words from the letters in RUBOUT
Common questions about RUBOUT
- Is RUBOUT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RUBOUT, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RUBOUT worth?
- RUBOUT is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RUBOUT mean?
- A killing, especially a planned murder of one criminal by another; also the act of rubbing something out.
- What letters can be added to RUBOUT?
- RUBOUT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RUBOUT:
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