BOOBY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BOOBY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOOBY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOOBY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOOBY
No single letter turns BOOBY into another word.
How BOOBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOOBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 2 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,344 thousand.
What does BOOBY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalzoology
A foolish or stupid person, or a large tropical seabird related to the gannet.
In everyday speech a booby is someone who behaves stupidly or clumsily, and the word survives chiefly in fixed phrases such as booby prize, given as a joke to the last-place finisher, and booby trap, a hidden device meant to catch someone unaware. Separately, ornithologists use booby as the name of several large diving seabirds found in warm coastal waters, so called because early sailors thought the tame, clumsy birds looked foolish on land. The bird sense is the more technical of the two and appears mainly in nature writing.
How BOOBY is used
The foolish-person sense is informal and mostly limited to set phrases; the seabird sense is standard in nature writing.
- He felt like a booby after tripping over his own feet.
- Last place earned her the booby prize.
- A blue-footed booby dived into the shallows.
- The soldiers checked the door for a booby trap.
- Only a booby would leave the gate open all night.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOOBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BOOBY
The 5 tiles of BOOBY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BOOBY
3 longer words begin with BOOBY.
Shorter words from the letters in BOOBY
Common questions about BOOBY
- Is BOOBY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOOBY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOOBY worth?
- BOOBY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOOBY mean?
- A foolish or stupid person, or a large tropical seabird related to the gannet.
- What letters can be added to BOOBY?
- No single letter can be added to BOOBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOOBY:
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