YABBA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. YABBA is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept YABBA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YABBA is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YABBA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
yabbasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YABBA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in YABBA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What does YABBA mean in Scrabble?
noun
slang
A street name for methamphetamine sold as a small pressed tablet, especially as reported in South East Asia and its neighbouring region.
The word entered English mainly through reporting on the drug trade in Thailand and nearby countries, where small pressed tablets of the stimulant were sold under this name before the term spread into wider slang use. Journalists and law-enforcement writers reach for yabba when quoting street terminology, keeping it separate from the clinical pharmaceutical name for the same drug. Slang glossaries record it as a borrowing rather than as medical vocabulary.
How YABBA is used
Informal and journalistic, heard mainly in reports on drug trafficking rather than in everyday conversation.
- Police seized thousands of yabba tablets hidden inside the truck.
- News reports used the word yabba rather than the clinical drug name.
- Border patrols along the river regularly intercept shipments of yabba.
- The glossary defined yabba as a street term picked up from South East Asia.
- Forum users argued about how yabba differs from other stimulant slang.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YABBA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with YABBA
1 longer words begin with YABBA.
Shorter words from the letters in YABBA
Common questions about YABBA
- Is YABBA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and YABBA is not in it.
- How many points is YABBA worth?
- YABBA is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YABBA mean?
- A street name for methamphetamine sold as a small pressed tablet, especially as reported in South East Asia and its neighbouring region.
- What letters can be added to YABBA?
- YABBA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of YABBA:
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