ATOMY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ATOMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ATOMY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ATOMY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ATOMY
No single letter turns ATOMY into another word.
How ATOMY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ATOMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does ATOMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
An archaic word for a tiny particle or speck, sometimes also used for a shriveled, skeleton-like body.
Atomy in its older sense meant a minute particle, such as the motes of dust visible in a slice of sunlight, drawing directly on the same root as the modern word atom. Shakespeare and other early writers also used atomy for a tiny creature or fairy, and separately for a shrunken, skeletal-looking person, a sense that survives mainly in old texts and dictionaries. Because English later settled on atom and skeleton for these ideas, atomy dropped out of everyday use and now reads as distinctly archaic. Readers mostly meet atomy today in older literature or in discussions of early modern English vocabulary.
How ATOMY is used
Archaic noun; largely confined to older literature rather than modern speech.
- The old text described sunbeams filled with dancing atomy.
- He was described as a mere atomy of a man after his long illness.
- The play refers to fairies as tiny atomy folk.
- Scholars note that atomy once meant much the same as atom.
- Old dictionaries list atomy alongside its modern descendant, atom.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ATOMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in ATOMY
3 words end in ATOMY. Useful as a back hook: play ATOMY onto a word already on the board.
Words with ATOMY inside
1 words contain ATOMY in the middle. Words that start with ATOMY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ATOMY
Common questions about ATOMY
- Is ATOMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ATOMY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ATOMY worth?
- ATOMY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ATOMY mean?
- An archaic word for a tiny particle or speck, sometimes also used for a shriveled, skeleton-like body.
- What letters can be added to ATOMY?
- No single letter can be added to ATOMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ATOMY:
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