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RUB

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

RUB 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).

Word family

RUBS-s 1 RUBBING-bing 5 RUBBED-bed 3

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

RUBBINGS 11
noun
  1. An act of rubbing.
    • Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.
  2. A difficulty or problem.
  3. archaicA quip or sarcastic remark.
  4. In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
  5. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
    • a heat rub intended for muscular strains
  6. A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
  7. UKslangA loan.
verb
  1. transitiveTo move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
    • I rubbed the cloth over the glass.
    • The cat rubbed itself against my leg.
    • I rubbed my hands together for warmth.
    • I couldn't rub the stain from the tablecloth.
  2. intransitiveTo be rubbed against something.
    • My shoes are beginning to rub.
  3. transitiveTo spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
    • meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
  4. datedTo move or pass with difficulty.
    • to rub through woods, as huntsmen
  5. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
    • to rub up silver
  6. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
  7. transitiveTo touch the jack with the bowl.