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Is redback a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word redback is a Scrabble US word. The word redback is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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Is redback a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word redback is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

R1E1D2B3A1C3K5

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7-letter words (1 found)

REDBACK,

6-letter words (13 found)

ARCKED,BACKED,BACKER,BARKED,BRACED,BRAKED,CARKED,CRAKED,DACKER,DEBARK,DECARB,RACKED,REBACK,

5-letter words (32 found)

ACERB,ACKER,ACRED,ARCED,ARDEB,ARKED,BAKED,BAKER,BARDE,BARED,BEARD,BRACE,BRACK,BRAKE,BREAD,BREAK,CABER,CABRE,CADRE,CAKED,CARED,CEDAR,CRAKE,CREAK,DAKER,DEBAR,DRACK,DRAKE,DRECK,KEBAR,RACED,RAKED,

4-letter words (54 found)

ABED,ABER,ACED,ACER,ACRE,AKED,ARED,BACK,BADE,BAKE,BARD,BARE,BARK,BEAD,BEAK,BEAR,BECK,BERK,BRAD,BRAE,BRAK,BRED,CADE,CAKE,CARB,CARD,CARE,CARK,CRAB,CRED,DACE,DACK,DARB,DARE,DARK,DEAR,DECK,DRAB,DRAC,DREK,EARD,ECAD,KADE,KAED,KBAR,KERB,KRAB,RACE,RACK,RADE,RAKE,READ,REAK,RECK,

3-letter words (32 found)

ACE,AKE,ARB,ARC,ARD,ARE,ARK,BAC,BAD,BAE,BAR,BED,BRA,CAB,CAD,CAR,DAB,DAE,DAK,DEB,EAR,ERA,ERK,KAB,KAE,KEA,KEB,KED,RAD,REB,REC,RED,

2-letter words (13 found)

AB,AD,AE,AR,BA,BE,DA,DE,EA,ED,ER,KA,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 146 words from redback according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of redback

redback

Alternative forms

  • red-back, red back

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

red +‎ back

Noun

redback (plural redbacks)

  1. (Australia) A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.
    • 1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78,
      “If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.
    • 2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade, Popular Science, page 58,
      Andrade first encountered the redback— whose lethal bite gives it as infamous a reputation in Australia as the black widow enjoys here in North America—when her grad-school adviser asked to travel to go to Perth to study them.
  2. (US) A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.
Synonyms
  • (Latrodectus hasselti): redback spider
  • (Calidris alpina):
Translations
See also
  • black widow
  • katipo

Etymology 2

Modelled after greenback, the currency of the United States of America, except using Communist Red

Noun

redback (plural redbacks)

  1. (slang) the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)
Coordinate terms
  • red chip

Source: wiktionary.org