RYBAT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. RYBAT 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept RYBAT?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RYBAT is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RYBAT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
rybatsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RYBAT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RYBAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does RYBAT mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotstechnical
A dressed stone forming the side of a door or window opening, especially in traditional Scottish masonry.
A rybat is one of the squared, smooth-faced stones set into the rough wall on either side of a door or window, giving the opening a neat, finished edge. Scottish stonemasons used rybats to strengthen and decorate openings in buildings made mostly of rubble stone, contrasting the polished rybat with the coarser wall around it. The term belongs to traditional building and architectural history, and turns up mainly in descriptions of older Scottish farmhouses and cottages.
How RYBAT is used
Technical; used in Scottish architecture and stonemasonry to describe the dressed stones framing a door or window.
- The mason cut each rybat square before setting it in place.
- Weathered rybats framed the cottage's narrow doorway.
- A single cracked rybat let damp into the window opening.
- The restoration replaced two rybats with matching stone.
- Smooth rybats stood out against the rough rubble wall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RYBAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RYBAT
1 longer words begin with RYBAT.
Words with RYBAT inside
3 words contain RYBAT in the middle. Words that start with RYBAT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RYBAT
Common questions about RYBAT
- Is RYBAT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and RYBAT is not in it.
- How many points is RYBAT worth?
- RYBAT is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RYBAT mean?
- A dressed stone forming the side of a door or window opening, especially in traditional Scottish masonry.
- What letters can be added to RYBAT?
- RYBAT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RYBAT:
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