VERBID is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. VERBID is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept VERBID?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VERBID is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VERBID
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VERBID scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in VERBID, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does VERBID mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A word formed from a verb that does not itself act as the main verb of a clause, such as an infinitive, participle or gerund.
Grammarians use verbid to group together verb forms that show an action without tense or a subject of their own. In the phrase to see the running water, both to see and running are examples. The term is useful in teaching, because it lets learners tell the finite verb of a sentence from the forms built on it.
How VERBID is used
A term from grammar and linguistics, mostly in textbooks.
- The teacher asked the class to underline each verbid in the paragraph.
- An infinitive is one kind of verbid.
- The grammar book defines a verbid in the first chapter.
- In the sentence she hates waiting, the word waiting is a verbid.
- Each verbid in the list lacks a tense of its own.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VERBID and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VERBID
1 longer words begin with VERBID.
Shorter words from the letters in VERBID
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Common questions about VERBID
- Is VERBID valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts VERBID, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is VERBID worth?
- VERBID is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VERBID mean?
- A word formed from a verb that does not itself act as the main verb of a clause, such as an infinitive, participle or gerund.
- What letters can be added to VERBID?
- VERBID takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of VERBID:
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