TABID is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TABID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TABID?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TABID is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TABID
No single letter turns TABID into another word.
How TABID scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TABID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What does TABID mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicmedical
Wasting away from disease; emaciated through long illness.
Tabid comes from an old medical term for a wasting sickness that slowly consumed the body, leaving sufferers thin, weak, and drained of strength over months or years. Physicians once used the word broadly for any chronic illness marked by this steady physical decline, long before more specific diagnoses replaced the old vocabulary. The word survives today mainly in historical medical writing and older literature rather than in modern clinical language.
How TABID is used
Archaic and medical; rarely used outside older texts describing long, wasting illness.
- The old physician described the patient as tabid and failing fast.
- Years of untreated illness had left him tabid and pale.
- The novel portrays a tabid old man confined to his bed.
- Historical case notes record several tabid patients in the ward.
- Her tabid frame worried the visiting doctor.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TABID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TABID
Common questions about TABID
- Is TABID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TABID, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TABID worth?
- TABID is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TABID mean?
- Wasting away from disease; emaciated through long illness.
- What letters can be added to TABID?
- No single letter can be added to TABID to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TABID:
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