SABRA is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SABRA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SABRA?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SABRA is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SABRA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sabrasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SABRA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SABRA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does SABRA mean in Scrabble?
noun
The fruit of the prickly pear cactus, or, informally, a person born in Israel.
A sabra grows on a cactus covered in sharp spines, yet the fruit inside its tough skin is soft and sweet, a contrast that gave rise to the word's second, informal sense. Israelis adopted sabra as an affectionate nickname for someone raised in the country, on the idea that a native-born Israeli is, like the plant's harvest, tough and spiny on the outside but warm underneath. The word entered English from Hebrew, which had itself borrowed it earlier from Arabic, and the plant itself grows widely across Israel and much of the Mediterranean. Applied to someone, sabra is a term of self-identification and pride rather than a technical or legal category.
How SABRA is used
The fruit sense is neutral and botanical; the informal sense for a native-born Israeli is used chiefly within Israeli English rather than as an outside label.
- The market stall sold ripe sabra fruit stacked in a wooden crate.
- Peeling a sabra carefully avoids the fine spines hidden in its skin.
- He proudly called himself a sabra, born and raised in Tel Aviv.
- The hedge of sabra cactus marked the edge of the old farm.
- She joked that her grandmother was as tough and sweet as a true sabra.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SABRA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SABRA
The 5 tiles of SABRA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SABRA
1 longer words begin with SABRA.
Shorter words from the letters in SABRA
Common questions about SABRA
- Is SABRA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SABRA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SABRA worth?
- SABRA is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SABRA mean?
- The fruit of the prickly pear cactus, or, informally, a person born in Israel.
- What letters can be added to SABRA?
- SABRA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SABRA:
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