What BARBING Means
BARBING 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
BARBING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 R1 B3 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In BARBING
79 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.
6 letter words (2)
5 letter words (9)
4 letter words (30)
ABRIAGINAIRNBANGBANIBARBBARNBIGABINGBRAGBRANBRIGBRINGAINGAIRGARBGARIGIRNGNARGRABGRANGRINNGAIRABIRAGIRAINRANGRANIRIBARING
3 letter words (28)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.