What NUMB Means
- adjective: lacking sensation“my foot is asleep”
- adjective: (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive“passersby were dead to our plea for help”
- verb: make numb or insensitive“The shock numbed her senses”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NUMB is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 U1 M3 B3.
Words Made From The Letters In NUMB
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 (3)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing NUMB
NUMB appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
BENUMBBENUMBEDBENUMBINGBENUMBMENTBENUMBSINUMBRATEINUMBRATEDINUMBRATESMISNUMBERMISNUMBERSNUMBATNUMBATSNUMBEDNUMBERNUMBERABLENUMBEREDNUMBERERNUMBERERSNUMBERINGNUMBERINGSNUMBERLESSNUMBERSNUMBESTNUMBFISHNUMBFISHESNUMBINGNUMBINGLYNUMBLESNUMBLYNUMBNESSNUMBNESSESNUMBSNUMBSKULLNUMBSKULLSOUTNUMBEROUTNUMBERSPENUMBRAPENUMBRAEPENUMBRALPENUMBRAS
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