BOGGY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BOGGY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOGGY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOGGY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOGGY
No single letter turns BOGGY into another word.
How BOGGY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOGGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 784,245.
What does BOGGY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Soft, wet and muddy, like the ground of a bog.
Ground described as boggy gives way underfoot and often holds water at the surface, making it difficult or unpleasant to walk across. Fields and paths become boggy after heavy rain, when peat or clay soil cannot drain the water away quickly enough. Hikers avoid boggy stretches of moorland because boots can sink deep into the mud and become stuck. The word can also describe a whole landscape dominated by bogs and marshes rather than a single wet patch.
How BOGGY is used
Common in describing wet, unstable ground on walks, farms and moorland.
- The path turned boggy after three days of rain.
- Their boots sank into the boggy field.
- A boggy hollow lay at the bottom of the valley.
- The moor is too boggy to cross in winter.
- Cattle avoid the boggy corner of the pasture.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOGGY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BOGGY
Common questions about BOGGY
- Is BOGGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOGGY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOGGY worth?
- BOGGY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOGGY mean?
- Soft, wet and muddy, like the ground of a bog.
- What letters can be added to BOGGY?
- No single letter can be added to BOGGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOGGY:
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