BAWDY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. BAWDY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BAWDY?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BAWDY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BAWDY
No single letter turns BAWDY into another word.
How BAWDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BAWDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does BAWDY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Humorously indecent, treating sex in a comic and coarse way rather than a serious one.
A bawdy joke or song treats sexual matters openly for laughter, standing apart from writing that is merely crude or clinical about the same subject. The word comes from bawd, an old term for someone who ran a brothel, and by the sixteenth century it had shifted to describe humor rather than the trade itself. The plays of Shakespeare are famous for weaving bawdy wordplay into otherwise serious scenes.
How BAWDY is used
Common in literary and theatrical criticism, and in describing comedy that is crude but playful rather than simply offensive.
- The tavern rang with bawdy songs late into the night.
- Critics praised the bawdy humor in the old comedy.
- His bawdy jokes made the whole table laugh.
- The play mixes bawdy scenes with serious tragedy.
- She found the limerick more bawdy than funny.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BAWDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BAWDY
2 longer words begin with BAWDY.
Shorter words from the letters in BAWDY
Common questions about BAWDY
- Is BAWDY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BAWDY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BAWDY worth?
- BAWDY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BAWDY mean?
- Humorously indecent, treating sex in a comic and coarse way rather than a serious one.
- What letters can be added to BAWDY?
- No single letter can be added to BAWDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BAWDY:
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