What BARB Means
- noun: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect“his parting shot was ‘drop dead’”
- noun: the pointed part of barbed wire
- verb: provide with barbs“barbed wire”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BARB is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 R1 B3.
Words Made From The Letters In BARB
7 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (4)
2 letter words (3)
Longer Words Containing BARB
BARB appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.