What BARBES Means
BARBES is a form of BARB, which 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
BARBES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 R1 B3 E1 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In BARBES
62 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.
5 letter words (10)
4 letter words (20)
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (10)
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