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GIBE

4 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GIBE Means

  1. verb: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics“The two stories don't agree in many details”
  2. verb: laugh at with contempt and derision“The crowd jeered at the speaker”
  3. noun: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect“his parting shot was ‘drop dead’”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GIBE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 I1 B3 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In GIBE

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 GIBE

GIBE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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