BOOGEY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BOOGEY 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 BOOGEY?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOOGEY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOOGEY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
boogeysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOOGEY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BOOGEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 295,648.
What does BOOGEY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
An imaginary evil spirit used to frighten children, or anything widely feared.
Parents have long invoked the boogey to make children behave, much as they once spoke of goblins in the dark. Grown-ups borrow the word for any threat that is more dread than substance, such as a political scare. Boogey is also a spelling of the verb meaning to dance energetically to popular music, although the dance sense is usually written boogie.
How BOOGEY is used
Informal; spelled boogey, boogie, bogey or bogy depending on the sense and the writer.
- The little boy was sure the boogey lived under his bed.
- Inflation became the boogey of every election campaign.
- She told the story of the boogey to scare her cousins.
- Some people make the new law into a boogey it does not deserve to be.
- The old boogey of the haunted house kept the village children away.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOOGEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOOGEY
5 longer words begin with BOOGEY.
Shorter words from the letters in BOOGEY
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Common questions about BOOGEY
- Is BOOGEY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOOGEY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOOGEY worth?
- BOOGEY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOOGEY mean?
- An imaginary evil spirit used to frighten children, or anything widely feared.
- What letters can be added to BOOGEY?
- BOOGEY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BOOGEY:
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