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Is ebb a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ebb is a Scrabble US word. The word ebb is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is ebb a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ebb is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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3-letter words (1 found)

EBB,

2-letter words (1 found)

BE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 3 words from ebb according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of ebb

ebb

Alternative forms

  • ebbe

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ĕb, IPA(key): /ɛb/
  • Rhymes: -ɛb

Etymology 1

From Middle English ebbe, from Old English ebba (“ebb, tide”), from Proto-West Germanic *abbjā, from Proto-Germanic *abjô, *abjǭ, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-European *apó.

See also West Frisian ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe, Danish ebbe, Old Norse efja (“countercurrent”), Old English af. More at of, off.

Noun

ebb (plural ebbs)

  1. The receding movement of the tide.
  2. A gradual decline.
  3. (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
    • 2002, Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 22 & 29 April
      A "lowest ebb" implies something singular and finite, but for many of us, born in the Depression and raised by parents distrustful of fortune, an "ebb" might easily have lasted for years.
  4. A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
Antonyms
  • flood
  • flow
Derived terms
  • at a low ebb
  • ebb and flow
  • ebb tide
Related terms
  • neap
  • tide
Translations

Adjective

ebb (comparative ebber, superlative ebbest)

  1. low, shallow

Etymology 2

From Middle English ebben, from Old English ebbian, from Proto-West Germanic *abbjōn (“to ebb”).

Verb

ebb (third-person singular simple present ebbs, present participle ebbing, simple past and past participle ebbed)

  1. (intransitive) to flow back or recede
    Synonyms: go out, go down
  2. (intransitive) to fall away or decline
  3. (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
  4. (transitive) To cause to flow back.
Synonyms
  • ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out, reflux, wane
Translations

Anagrams

  • BBE

Swedish

Etymology

From Dutch or German Ebbe.

Noun

ebb c

  1. ebb, low tide
    Synonym: lågvatten
    Antonyms: flod, högvatten

Declension

See also

  • tidvatten (“tide”)

References

  • ebb in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • ebb in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • ebb in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org