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Is limb a Scrabble word?

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

L1I1M3B3

Is limb a Scrabble UK word?

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

L1I1M3B3

Is limb a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word limb is a Words With Friends word. The word limb is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

L2I1M4B4

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4-letter words (1 found)

LIMB,

3-letter words (3 found)

LIB,MIB,MIL,

2-letter words (3 found)

BI,LI,MI,

You can make 7 words from limb according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of limb

limb ilmb lmib mlib imlb milb libm ilbm lbim blim iblm bilm lmbi mlbi lbmi blmi mbli bmli imbl mibl ibml biml mbil bmil

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Definitions and meaning of limb

limb

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪm/
  • Rhymes: -ɪm
  • Homophones: limn, Lymm

Etymology 1

From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).

The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.

Noun

limb (plural limbs)

  1. A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
  2. A branch of a tree.
    Synonym: bough
  3. (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
  4. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
  5. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
  6. Short for limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).
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Verb

limb (third-person singular simple present limbs, present participle limbing, simple past and past participle limbed)

  1. (transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
  2. (transitive) To supply with limbs.
Synonyms
  • delimb
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Etymology 2

From Latin limbus (“border”).

Noun

limb (plural limbs)

  1. (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
  2. (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
  3. (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
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Anagrams

  • blim

Source: wiktionary.org