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Is orb a Scrabble word?

Yes, orb is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of orb?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a spherecountableuncountable

2. (rare) The time period of an orbitExamples: "Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd / By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course / Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature / Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons."Synonyms: yearcountablerareuncountable

3. (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entityExamples: "A drop serene hath quenched their orbs."; "Painfully, he forced his hot eyelids to unclose, and his distended orbs sought for some object whereon to fix; they met the patch of grass, yet red with the blood of Walter Maynard."Synonyms: eyecountablepoeticuncountable

4. (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheelExamples: "The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled."Synonyms: roller, wheelcountablepoeticuncountable

5. (rare) A sphere of action.Examples: "By what fatality the orb of my genius […] acts upon these men like the moon upon a certain description of patients, it would be irksome to inquire"; "But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe."Synonyms: area, domain, field, provincecountablerareuncountable

6. (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.Synonyms: circle, orbit, globecountableuncountable

verb (English)

1. (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.Examples: "Let each His adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his helm, gripe fast his orbed shield"; "a full-orbed sun"; "And is it that the haze of grief ⁠Hath stretch’d my former joy so great? […] Or that the past will always win ⁠A glory from its being far; ⁠And orb into the perfect star We saw not, when we moved therein?"poetictransitive

2. (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.intransitivepoetic

3. (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.Examples: "The wheels were orbed with gold."poetictransitive

noun (English)

1. (architecture) A blank window or panel.Examples: "small blank windows or panels, for in later times such panels were called orbs, blind windows"

noun (English)

1. (software engineering) Initialism of object request broker.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

2. (historical, military) Initialism of operations record book (used by RAF).abbreviationalt-ofhistoricalinitialism

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "orb"?

Scrabble
5 points
O1
R1
B3
Words With Friends
6 points
O1
R1
B4

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