Boggle Word Finder
RIB
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
1
pts
Big
too short
(min 4)
(min 4)
Super Big
too short
(min 4)
(min 4)
RIB is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).
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noun
- Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
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broadlyA part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
- a broken rib on the umbrella
- A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
- Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
- Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
- A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
- A strip of metal running along the top of the barrel that serves as a sighting plane.
- A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
- The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
- A teasing joke.
- IrelandcolloquialA single strand of hair.
- A stalk of celery.
- archaichumorousliteraryA wife or woman.
- Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
- Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).
- Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
verb
- To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
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To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
- He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.
- To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
- transitiveTo leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).