What BARBS Means
BARBS 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
BARBS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 R1 B3 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In BARBS
19 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.
4 letter words (5)
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing BARBS
BARBS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.