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Yes. The word orb is a Scrabble US word. The word orb is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (4 found)

BOR,BRO,ORB,ROB,

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Definitions and meaning of orb

orb

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɔɹb/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔːb/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)b

Etymology 1

From Middle English orbe, from Old French orbe, from Latin orbis (“circle, orb”). Compare orbit.

Noun

orb (plural orbs)

  1. A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
  2. Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
  3. (architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
  4. An orbit of an heavenly body
  5. (rare) The time period of an orbit
  6. (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
  7. (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
  8. (rare) A sphere of action.
  9. A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
  10. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
  11. (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
  12. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (astrology) Amount of deviation from the closest perfect aspect.
Synonyms
  • (spherical body): ball, globe, sphere
  • (circle): circle, orbit
  • (a period of time): See Thesaurus:year
  • (an eye): See Thesaurus:eye
  • (revolving circular body): roller, wheel
  • (sphere of action): area, domain, field, province
  • (monarch's ceremonial sphere): globe, globus cruciger, mound, orb
  • (military formation): globe
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

orb (third-person singular simple present orbs, present participle orbing, simple past and past participle orbed)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
  2. (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
  3. (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.

Etymology 2

From Old French orb (“blind”), from Latin orbus (“destitute”).

Noun

orb (plural orbs)

  1. (architecture) A blank window or panel.

References

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

Anagrams

  • BOR, Bor, Bor., ROB, Rob, bor, bro, bro., rob

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • orbu

Etymology

From Latin orbus. Compare Romanian orb.

Adjective

orb m (feminine singular orbe, masculine plural orghi, feminine plural orbi)

  1. blind
  2. (figurative) ignorant
  3. (figurative) uncultivated, unrefined, uncivilized

Related terms

  • urbari
  • urbiatse

See also

  • chior

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan orb (also spelled horp), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”). Compare Occitan òrb, Italian orbo, Romanian orb.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔrp]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔɾp]

Adjective

orb (feminine orba, masculine plural orbs, feminine plural orbes)

  1. blind
    Synonym: cec

Noun

orb m (uncountable)

  1. a fungal disease of wheat and other cereals

References

  • “orb”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “orb”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “orb” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “orb” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish orpo, from Proto-Finnic *orpoi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *orpa, borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hárbʰas. Cognate with Hungarian árva.

Noun

orb (genitive orvu, partitive orbu)

  1. orphan

Declension

Further reading

  • “orb”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “orb”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • orb in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin orbus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”). Compare Italian orbo. Doublet of rob.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /orb/

Adjective

orb m or n (feminine singular oarbă, masculine plural orbi, feminine and neuter plural oarbe)

  1. blind

Declension

Noun

orb m (plural orbi, feminine equivalent oarbă)

  1. blind man

Declension

Derived terms

  • orbeț
  • orbi

Related terms

  • orbecăi

See also

  • chior
  • mut
  • surd
  • vedea

Source: wiktionary.org