SIB is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. SIB is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SIB?
| 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 SIB is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SIB
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SIB scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in SIB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does SIB mean in Scrabble?
noun
A brother or a sister.
Sib is the older word that sibling was built out of, and it survives mostly in anthropology and genetics, where a precise term is wanted. Sibling itself was rare until the twentieth century and is now much the commoner of the two.
How SIB is used
Countable: a sib, two sibs. Chiefly technical.
- A sib shares both parents in the strict sense.
- The word sib is older than sibling.
- Geneticists count sibs and everybody else counts brothers.
- Two sibs in the same study and one control.
- Sibling was built from sib and then overtook it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SIB and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SIB
The 3 tiles of SIB in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SIB
Showing 24 of 29 words that begin with SIB.
Words ending in SIB
1 words end in SIB. Useful as a back hook: play SIB onto a word already on the board.
Words with SIB inside
Showing 24 of 356 words that contain SIB somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SIB are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SIB
Common questions about SIB
- Is SIB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SIB, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SIB worth?
- SIB is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SIB mean?
- A brother or a sister.
- What letters can be added to SIB?
- SIB takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of SIB:
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