ZEBU is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ZEBU 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 ZEBU?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZEBU is to know. It scores 15 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZEBU
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZEBU scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ZEBU, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 40,846.
What does ZEBU mean in Scrabble?
noun
A humped breed of cattle from South Asia.
The zebu carries a hump of muscle and fat over the shoulders and tolerates heat far better than European cattle do. It was domesticated separately from them, which makes the two lineages older than any breed within either.
How ZEBU is used
Countable: a zebu, two zebus.
- A zebu tolerates heat that European cattle cannot.
- The hump on a zebu is muscle and fat.
- The word zebu came into English through French.
- Two zebus in a herd of ordinary cattle stand out at once.
- The zebu was domesticated separately from European cattle.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZEBU and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZEBU
3 longer words begin with ZEBU.
Shorter words from the letters in ZEBU
Common questions about ZEBU
- Is ZEBU valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZEBU, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZEBU worth?
- ZEBU is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZEBU mean?
- A humped breed of cattle from South Asia.
- What letters can be added to ZEBU?
- ZEBU takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ZEBU:
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