What JIBE Means
- verb: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics“The two stories don't agree in many details”
- verb: shift from one side of the ship to the other“The sail jibbed wildly”
- 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
JIBE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 I1 B3 E1.
Words Made From The Letters In JIBE
3 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 (1)
2 letter words (2)
Longer Words Containing JIBE
JIBE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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