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curveball

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Is curveball a Scrabble word?

Yes, curveball is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 16 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of curveball?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (baseball) A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"Examples: "He bit on a curveball in the dirt."; "Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball."; "Caglianone ripped Miles Mikolas’ curveball into the right-field corner for an RBI double that scored Salvador Perez in the fourth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Cardinals."Synonyms: curve, deuce, yakker

2. (by extension, chiefly US) An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance; an exception or outlier.Examples: "Life has thrown him a few curveballs."; "The season’s first episode, “Bart Gets an F,” got the highest ratings in its history, but “Treehouse of Horror” was the real curveball: a genre-busting effort that proudly punched above the show’s expectations."; "There are two curveball nominations, one perhaps a popularity bid and the other a credibility bid. The popular one is Bieber’s Purpose."Synonyms: twistUSbroadly

verb (English)

1. (baseball) To throw a curveball.Examples: "Even though the haughty physics professors at the elite school ridiculed his declaration that he could make a baseball curve, Cummings just laughed it off and said, “I curveballed them to death,” according to Frederick Ivor-Campbell."; "The news curveballed him. He'd been hamstrung and schizzed all the preceding weeks. He brooded in his den."

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "curveball"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "curveball"?

Scrabble
16 points
C3
U1
R1
V4
E1
B3
A1
L1
L1
Words With Friends
22 points
C4
U2
R1
V4
E1
B4
A1
L2
L2

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