SYBOW is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. SYBOW 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SYBOW?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SYBOW is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SYBOW
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sybowsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SYBOW scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SYBOW, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 294,092.
What does SYBOW mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A spring onion, in Scots dialect.
Sybow is one of several Scots names for the same small onion pulled while its bulb is still slender and its green top still tender, the others being sybo and syboe. The word likely traces back through French to the Latin caepa, the same root that gives English chive and the older word cibol. It is a kitchen-garden word, most at home in recipes and older Scots writing rather than in general conversation.
How SYBOW is used
Scots dialect; a regional name for the vegetable usually called a spring onion or scallion in standard English.
- She chopped a sybow into the soup for a milder bite than onion.
- The stall sold sybows in bunches tied with string.
- His granny always called a spring onion a sybow.
- A sybow works well raw in a salad where a full onion would overpower it.
- The recipe calls for two sybows, finely sliced.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SYBOW and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SYBOW
1 longer words begin with SYBOW.
Shorter words from the letters in SYBOW
Common questions about SYBOW
- Is SYBOW valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SYBOW is not in it.
- How many points is SYBOW worth?
- SYBOW is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SYBOW mean?
- A spring onion, in Scots dialect.
- What letters can be added to SYBOW?
- SYBOW takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SYBOW:
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