WEB is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. WEB 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 WEB?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WEB is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WEB
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
websChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WEB scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in WEB, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does WEB mean in Scrabble?
noun
A network of fine threads made by a spider.
Web meant any woven thing for a thousand years before it meant either the spider's work or the internet, and the sense of weaving is still sitting in the middle of the word. The technical senses arrived in a rush: webbed feet, the web of a girder, and then the largest of all in 1990.
How WEB is used
Countable: a web, two webs. Capitalised for the internet sense.
- The web across the gate is rebuilt every night.
- A web that size took one spider a few hours.
- The web of the girder is thinner than the flanges.
- Ducks have webbed feet and hens do not.
- The word web meant cloth long before it meant anything else.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WEB and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WEB
Showing 24 of 74 words that begin with WEB.
Words ending in WEB
3 words end in WEB. Useful as a back hook: play WEB onto a word already on the board.
Words with WEB inside
11 words contain WEB in the middle. Words that start with WEB are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WEB
Common questions about WEB
- Is WEB valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WEB, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WEB worth?
- WEB is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WEB mean?
- A network of fine threads made by a spider.
- What letters can be added to WEB?
- WEB takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of WEB:
Open WEB in the Word Finder