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Is gab a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gab is a Scrabble US word. The word gab is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is gab a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gab is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

G2A1B3

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Yes. The word gab is a Words With Friends word. The word gab is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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3-letter words (2 found)

BAG,GAB,

2-letter words (3 found)

AB,AG,BA,

You can make 5 words from gab according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of gab

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Definitions and meaning of gab

gab

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡæb/
  • Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English gab, gabbe, from Old Norse gabb (“jest, mockery”) (whence also Old French gab, gap (“mockery, derision, scorn”)). Cognate with Icelandic gabb (“hoax”).

Noun

gab (countable and uncountable, plural gabs)

  1. Idle chatter.
  2. The mouth or gob.
  3. One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
Derived terms
  • bafflegab
  • begab
  • gabble
  • gabby
  • gift of the gab
  • wide-gab
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English gabben, from Old English gabban (“to scoff, mock, delude, jest”) and Old Norse gabba (“to mock, make sport of”); both from Proto-Germanic *gabbōną (“to mock, jest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“to be split, be forked, gape”). Cognate with Scots gab (“to mock, prate”), North Frisian gabben (“to jest, sport”), Middle Dutch gabben (“to mock”), Middle Low German gabben (“to jest, have fun”).

Verb

gab (third-person singular simple present gabs, present participle gabbing, simple past and past participle gabbed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
  2. (intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
Derived terms
  • gabber
  • gabbing
Translations

Anagrams

  • ABG, AGB, BGA, GBA, bag

Amanab

Noun

gab

  1. a large dove

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse gap, verbal noun to gapa (“to gape”).

Noun

gab n (singular definite gabet, plural indefinite gab)

  1. mouth, jaws
  2. yawn
  3. gap

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaːp/
  • Rhymes: -aːp

Verb

gab

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of geben

Old French

Alternative forms

  • gaab
  • gap

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse gabb.

Noun

gab oblique singular, m (oblique plural gas, nominative singular gas, nominative plural gab)

  1. joke

Related terms

  • gaber

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gab)
  • gab on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • gap

Verb

gab

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative of geban

Source: wiktionary.org