barb
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When barb helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
A B R
Two-Letter Start
BA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
RB
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- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- BA start
- RB ending
- repeated letters
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- barb is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, b, r plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (B x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The RB ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the BA start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
noun
A hurtful or disparaging remark.
noun
A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
noun
Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.
noun
A horse.
noun
One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
noun
Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
noun
Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish), found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
noun
A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
noun
A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
noun
A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
noun
Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]
noun
A bit for a horse.
noun
A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
verb
To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
verb
To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
verb
To cut (hair).
verb
To shave or dress the beard of.
verb
To clip; to mow.
noun
The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
noun
A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
noun
A barbiturate.