What HOBBERS Means
HOBBERS is a form of HOBBER, which means:
- noun: a special type of milling machine used for gear cutting, cutting splines, and cutting sprockets.“Modern hobbing machines, also known as hobbers, are fully automated machines that come in many sizes, because they need to be able to produce anything from tiny instrument gears up to 10 ft (3.0 m) diameter marine gears.”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HOBBERS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 O1 B3 B3 E1 R1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In HOBBERS
93 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 (3)
5 letter words (12)
4 letter words (30)
BOBSBOHSBOREBORSBOSHBROSEBBSEROSHERBHEROHERSHOBSHOESHORSHOSEOBESORBSORESREBSREHSREOSRESHRHOSROBEROBSROESROSESHOESORBSORE
3 letter words (33)
2 letter words (15)
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