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Is hob a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hob is a Scrabble US word. The word hob is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

H4O1B3

Is hob a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hob is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

H4O1B3

Is hob a Words With Friends word?

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

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3-letter words (2 found)

BOH,HOB,

2-letter words (4 found)

BO,HO,OB,OH,

You can make 6 words from hob according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of hob

hob ohb hbo bho obh boh

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Definitions and meaning of hob

hob

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: hŏb, IPA(key): /hɑb/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hŏb, IPA(key): /hɒb/
  • Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

Related to hub, but the ultimate origin of both words is obscure.

Noun

hob (plural hobs)

  1. A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
  2. (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
    • 1898, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book the Second, Chapter V (The Jackal):
      They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. A kettle steamed upon the hob, and in the midst of the wreck of papers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons.
  3. (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
  4. A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
  5. A male ferret.
  6. The hub of a wheel.
    • August 31 1776, George Washington, letter to the President of Congress
      the wheels of the carriages sinking up to the hobs rendered it impossible for our whole force to drag them.
Synonyms
  • (cooking surface): (US, Canada) cooktop, stovetop
Translations

Verb

hob (third-person singular simple present hobs, present participle hobbing, simple past and past participle hobbed)

  1. (transitive) To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
  2. (intransitive) To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.

Etymology 2

From Middle English Hob (a diminutive of Robin, an Old French [Term?] diminutive of Robert), through its connection with Robin Goodfellow and (later) the devil. Compare hobgoblin; see robin.

Noun

hob (plural hobs)

  1. (obsolete) A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
  2. (obsolete) A countryman; a rustic or yokel.
Synonyms
  • (supernatural creature): See goblin (hostile)
Derived terms
  • play hob with, raise hob

References

  • “hob”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • BHO, BOH, HBO, boh

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish hob, from Middle Low German hōp, from Old Saxon hōp, from Proto-West Germanic *haup (“heap”), cognate with English heap. Late Old Norse hópr and Swedish hop are also borrowed from Low German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hoːˀb/, [ˈhoˀb̥]

Noun

hob c (singular definite hoben, plural indefinite hobe)

  1. crowd, multitude (a large amount of people or animals)
  2. (derogatory) common people
  3. heap
  4. (computer science) heap

Declension

Derived terms

  • galaksehob
  • hoben (“crowd, heap”, noun)
  • hobe (“to heap”, verb)
  • til hobe (“together”, adverb)

German

Pronunciation

Verb

hob

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of heben

Lower Sorbian

Preposition

hob (with accusative)

  1. Obsolete spelling of wob

Source: wiktionary.org