Decoy is valid Scrabble Word

Is decoy a scrabble word?
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Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is decoy valid Words with Friends?
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5 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for DECOY in dictionary:

VERB:

to lure into a trap
lure or entice (a person or animal) away from their intended course, typically into a trap
To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy
lure away by means of a trick

NOUN:

a bird or mammal, or an imitation of one, used by hunters to attract other birds or mammals
a person or thing used to mislead or lure someone into a trap
a pond from which narrow netted channels lead, into which wild duck may be enticed for capture.
person or thing used to lure someone into danger
Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.

A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed

Words related to DECOY

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Words that contain DECOY

decoys12 decoyed14 decoyer13 decoyers14 decoying15

How to use DECOY in a sentence

The name in the text ought perhaps to have been Rhane-fenna, as he tells us they had rein-deer, and employed decoy deer to catch the wild.
We even, as of course you are aware, employ decoy spies ourselves, who work in conjunction with our friends at Whitehall.
Duling had on his back a basket holding a decoy cock, together with the snares of running-nooses and all the parts of the trap.
The account of the decoy party of Indians is partially confirmed by the British letters.
This manoeuvre was evidently intended to decoy us into their power, and served to increase our caution.
The she-bear told Muckwa to remain quietly in the tree, and that she would decoy off the hunters.
But on second thought I refused to believe he would deceive me about Scharnhoff and use me as a decoy without my permission.
Besides the sight of the long lines of white swans on the Fleet, there is an interesting decoy for trapping wild duck, the procedure being explained by the courteous attendant.
He might discover, when it was too late, that the German had been, unwillingly, used as a decoy by cunning natives into whose hands he might have fallen.
And there began and ended the simple yet sufficient mechanism of the decoy.

Arrived at the paling which surrounded the decoy, the dog sat down to wait until he was wanted.
A fourth and a fifth time the game went on, until the dog had lured the water-fowl from point to point into the inner recesses of the decoy.
The bailiff touched the strings, the weighed net-work fell vertically into the water, and closed the decoy.
Their stratagems consisted in placing tempting pieces of meat at points near which they lay in ambush, and in pretending lameness to decoy the Englishmen into pursuit.
She moved toward the bird, talking softly, but the persuasion was as useless as if the decoy had been a wild thing.
My thought was of decoy and ambush, which was no credit to me, for this girl had been faithful before.
The room taken by the decoy is vacated immediately after the robbery, the girl and her confederate disappear, and it is impossible to find them.
The others wanted to go somewhere or do something without her, and this little brown-faced, sharp-eyed man had been told off as a kind of decoy duck.
He next extends his hand to them and caresses them also, at the same time giving them plenty of his decoy balls to lick.
I thought that you might wish to use the cub as a sort of decoy to lead the old ones to you, that you might pray them to bring prosperity and virtue to your house.
The idea of employing palpably dishonest servants to act as decoy ducks to lure the burglars on to the premises was an excellent one and had fully answered my expectations.
The hot punch imbibed after his swim in the Decoy Pond seemed to have averted all evil consequences, or perhaps he was case-hardened to such things.
A favorite Indian decoy, and the most fatal one, was the imitation of the call of the wild turkey.
Instead of being the fastest ship, it was a fraud, a decoy, a dead trap on those who were unfortunate enough to ship by it.
His decoy! The moonlight poured through the open window, the music of the stream filled the room.
He crawled out and ran to the row of stockings he had hung on the mantelpiece as a decoy.
Decoy them with this paper, and when they are here, break that window.
She wants to decoy me to her lodgings, and hopes to make me yield by threats of exposure.
The Americans have a plan of capturing these birds, by means of a decoy, or stool-pigeon, and nets.
Trumbull and Lincoln were like two decoy ducks which lead the flock astray.
They told the slaves to beware of the abolitionists, that their object was to decoy off slaves and then sell them off in New Orleans.

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