TSUBO is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. TSUBO is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TSUBO?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TSUBO is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TSUBO
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tsubosChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TSUBO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TSUBO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does TSUBO mean in Scrabble?
noun
A traditional Japanese unit of area equal to about 3.3 square meters, still used today mainly in real estate and construction.
A tsubo is roughly the space taken up by two standard tatami mats laid side by side, which made it a natural way for builders to describe a room long before the metric system arrived. Japanese property listings often give the size of an apartment or plot in tsubo alongside the square-meter figure, since many older buyers and builders still find tsubo easier to picture. The unit has no direct match in English-speaking countries, so English writers borrow the Japanese word rather than translate it, much as they do with tatami itself.
How TSUBO is used
Encountered mainly in Japanese real estate and construction contexts, sometimes borrowed directly into English-language property listings.
- The new apartment measured thirty tsubo, about ninety-nine square meters.
- Local agents still price land by the tsubo rather than the square meter.
- A traditional tea house might occupy only a few tsubo of garden.
- One tsubo is close to the area of two tatami mats laid together.
- He compared the tsubo size of both properties before signing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TSUBO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TSUBO
The 5 tiles of TSUBO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with TSUBO
1 longer words begin with TSUBO.
Shorter words from the letters in TSUBO
Common questions about TSUBO
- Is TSUBO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TSUBO, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TSUBO worth?
- TSUBO is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TSUBO mean?
- A traditional Japanese unit of area equal to about 3.3 square meters, still used today mainly in real estate and construction.
- What letters can be added to TSUBO?
- TSUBO takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TSUBO:
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