BLOOEY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BLOOEY 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 BLOOEY?
| 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 BLOOEY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BLOOEY
No single letter turns BLOOEY into another word.
How BLOOEY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BLOOEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 221,736.
What stands out about BLOOEY
- BLOOEY runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BLOOEY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
slangNorth American
Out of order, broken or gone wrong.
Blooey is an American slang word that sounds like the noise of something going wrong, and it is used in the phrase go blooey, meaning to fail or break down suddenly. It is more often heard in older films and books than in current speech. The spelling blooie is a variant that appears in some word lists.
How BLOOEY is used
Informal and dated; mostly in the phrase go blooey.
- The radio went blooey in the middle of the broadcast.
- All our plans for the picnic went blooey when it rained.
- The old truck had gone blooey again by the time we reached the hill.
- Something is blooey with the wiring in this room.
- He said the whole scheme would go blooey before the month was out.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BLOOEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BLOOEY
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Common questions about BLOOEY
- Is BLOOEY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BLOOEY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BLOOEY worth?
- BLOOEY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BLOOEY mean?
- Out of order, broken or gone wrong.
- What letters can be added to BLOOEY?
- No single letter can be added to BLOOEY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BLOOEY:
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