1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Stab in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does stab mean? Is stab a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is stab worth? stab how many points in Words With Friends? What does stab mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for stab

See how to calculate how many points for stab.

Is stab a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word stab is a Scrabble US word. The word stab is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

S1T1A1B3

Is stab a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word stab is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

S1T1A1B3

Is stab a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word stab is a Words With Friends word. The word stab is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1T1A1B4

Our tools

Valid words made from Stab

Jump to...

Results

4-letter words (4 found)

BAST,BATS,STAB,TABS,

3-letter words (8 found)

ABS,ATS,BAS,BAT,SAB,SAT,TAB,TAS,

2-letter words (6 found)

AB,AS,AT,BA,ST,TA,

You can make 18 words from stab according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of stab

stab tsab satb astb tasb atsb stba tsba sbta bsta tbsa btsa sabt asbt sbat bsat abst bast tabs atbs tbas btas abts bats

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

Definitions and meaning of stab

stab

Pronunciation

  • enPR: stăb, IPA(key): /stæb/
  • Hyphenation: stab
  • Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe.

Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.

Noun

stab (plural stabs)

  1. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
  2. A wound made by stabbing.
  3. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
  4. (informal) An attempt.
  5. Criticism.
  6. (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
    a horn stab
  7. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

stab (third-person singular simple present stabs, present participle stabbing, simple past and past participle stabbed)

  1. (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
  2. (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
  3. (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
  4. (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
  5. (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
  6. (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
  7. (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
  8. (transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
Derived terms
  • backstabbing
  • brain-stabbing
  • stab yourself and pass the dagger
  • stabbee
  • stabber
  • twice-stabbed lady beetle
  • twice-stabbed ladybug
  • twice-stabbed stink bug
  • unstabbed
Translations

References

  • “stab”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “stab”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Etymology 2

Clipping of stabilizer or stabiliser.

Noun

stab (plural stabs)

  1. (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.

Etymology 3

Adjective

stab (not comparable)

  1. (industrial relations) Clipping of established.

Noun

stab (plural not attested)

  1. (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.

Anagrams

  • ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, BTAS, Bast, Bats, SATB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bast, bats, tabs

Danish

Etymology

From German Stab.

Noun

stab c (singular definite staben, plural indefinite stabe)

  1. staff

Inflection

Lushootseed

Alternative forms

  • stab̓

Etymology

From s- +‎ tab(a), from Proto-Salish *s-tam ("what?"; "something"), from *s- +‎ *tam (“thing; what”)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /stɑb/

Determiner

stab

  1. (interrogative) what thing?, by what means?

Noun

stab

  1. thing (plural: stab)

Swedish

Etymology

From German Stab.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɑːb/

Noun

stab c

  1. a staff
  2. a stick

Declension

References

Anagrams

  • bast

Source: wiktionary.org