What NUMBS Means
NUMBS is a form of NUMB, which 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
NUMBS 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 N1 U1 M3 B3 S1.
Words Made From The Letters In NUMBS
22 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 (6)
3 letter words (11)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing NUMBS
NUMBS 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.