The word bulb is a valid scrabble word

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • bulb n. (Obsolete) An onion.
  • bulb n. The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
  • bulb n. (Dated, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.

22 valid words from 3 definitions

AN AS BE BULB DATED FROM MAY MEDULLA NEUROANATOMY OBSOLETE OF ONION PLANT PORTION REGROWN REST ROOT SHAPED SUCH THE TULIP WHICH

1 invalid word from 3 definitions

OBLONGATA

One word-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word.)

BLUB

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

BLUB

3 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

BULK BULL BURB

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

BUB

21 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

BULBS BULBAR BULBED BULBEL BULBIL BULBUL BULBELS BULBILS BULBING BULBLET BULBOUS BULBULS BULBLETS BULBOSITY BULBOUSLY BULBIFEROUS BULBOSITIES BULBOUSNESS BULBOPHYLLUM BULBOPHYLLUMS BULBOUSNESSES

4 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

FLASHBULBS LIGHTBULBS PSEUDOBULBS RETROBULBAR

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

FLASHBULB LIGHTBULB PSEUDOBULB

6 anagrams plus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word plus a letter.)

+A BABUL BUBAL
+R BLURB
+S BLUBS BULBS SLUBB

One anagram minus one (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-L BUB

Scrabble scoring

  • 8 points.

Probability in scrabble (Probability to draw 7 letters at the beginning of the game to build the word.)

  • Joker allowed, 1 in 536 chance (0.19%).
  • Joker not allowed, 1 in 7002 chance (0.01%).

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Categories without words

  • No words-in-word (Word found as is inside the word.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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