WIDEBAND is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. WIDEBAND is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WIDEBAND?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WIDEBAND is to know. It scores 15 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WIDEBAND
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
widebandsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WIDEBAND scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in WIDEBAND, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so WIDEBAND has to be built on the board across turns.
What does WIDEBAND mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Operating over, or able to carry, a broad range of frequencies.
Wideband equipment handles signals spread across a large slice of the spectrum rather than a narrow channel. Engineers choose a wideband design when they need to pass a great deal of data or listen to many frequencies at once.
How WIDEBAND is used
Wideband appears in radio, telecommunications and audio engineering.
- The lab built a wideband receiver for the survey.
- A wideband antenna picks up many channels at once.
- They upgraded to a wideband connection.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WIDEBAND and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WIDEBAND
1 longer words begin with WIDEBAND.
Shorter words from the letters in WIDEBAND
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Common questions about WIDEBAND
- Is WIDEBAND valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WIDEBAND, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WIDEBAND worth?
- WIDEBAND is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WIDEBAND mean?
- Operating over, or able to carry, a broad range of frequencies.
- What letters can be added to WIDEBAND?
- WIDEBAND takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of WIDEBAND:
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