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Is glob a Scrabble word?

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

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Is glob a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is glob a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word glob is a Words With Friends word. The word glob is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

BLOG,GLOB,

3-letter words (4 found)

BOG,GOB,LOB,LOG,

2-letter words (4 found)

BO,GO,LO,OB,

You can make 10 words from glob according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of glob

glob lgob golb oglb logb olgb glbo lgbo gblo bglo lbgo blgo gobl ogbl gbol bgol obgl bogl lobg olbg lbog blog oblg bolg

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word glob. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in glob.

Definitions and meaning of glob

glob

Etymology

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Possibly a blend of blob +‎ gob or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, blob, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.)

In the programming sense, originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; short for global.

In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡlɑb/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡlɒb/
  • Rhymes: -ɑb, -ɒb

Noun

glob (plural globs)

  1. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
  2. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
  3. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

See also

  • Glob (programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)

  1. To stick in globs or lumps.
  2. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

References

Further reading

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “glob”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • Blog, GLBO, LGBO, blog

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin globus. Doublet of gleba and globus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlɔp/
  • Rhymes: -ɔp
  • Syllabification: glob

Noun

glob m inan

  1. planet, globe
    Synonym: ziemia

Declension

Further reading

  • glob in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • glob in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French globe, from Latin globus.

Noun

glob n (plural globuri)

  1. globe (all senses)

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

glob c

  1. a globe

Declension

Related terms

  • global
  • jordglob
  • Globen = Stockholm Globe Arena

Source: wiktionary.org