BANDY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BANDY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BANDY?
| 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 BANDY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BANDY
No single letter turns BANDY into another word.
How BANDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BANDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does BANDY mean in Scrabble?
verb
To exchange words, blows, or ideas rapidly back and forth, often in a careless or heated way.
Bandy describes a quick, repeated exchange, whether people are trading insults, tossing a ball between them, or passing a rumor casually from one person to the next. The word carries a slightly dismissive tone, suggesting that whatever is being bandied is handled loosely rather than treated with care, as in bandying an idea about without real thought. Bandy also names an old stick-and-ball game similar to field hockey, from which the verb's sense of tossing something to and fro likely developed. Writers often pair bandy with words like about or words, producing set phrases such as bandy words or bandy an idea about.
How BANDY is used
Verb, frequently used in the fixed phrase bandy words with someone; past tense is bandied.
- The two lawyers began to bandy accusations across the courtroom.
- Neighbors love to bandy gossip over the garden fence.
- He refused to bandy words with someone so rude.
- The children would bandy the ball back and forth all afternoon.
- Reporters bandy that rumor about the office every week.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BANDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BANDY
4 longer words begin with BANDY.
Shorter words from the letters in BANDY
Common questions about BANDY
- Is BANDY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BANDY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BANDY worth?
- BANDY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BANDY mean?
- To exchange words, blows, or ideas rapidly back and forth, often in a careless or heated way.
- What letters can be added to BANDY?
- No single letter can be added to BANDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BANDY:
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