BUGGERY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. BUGGERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BUGGERY?
| 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: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUGGERY is to know. It scores 14 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUGGERY
No single letter turns BUGGERY into another word.
How BUGGERY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in BUGGERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,632 thousand.
What does BUGGERY mean in Scrabble?
noun
legalhistorical
A legal term, now old-fashioned, for anal intercourse and for certain sexual acts that old statutes treated as crimes.
Buggery mostly appears in the history of law, where older statutes used it as a formal offence name. Modern legal systems have largely replaced it with other wording or repealed those laws.
How BUGGERY is used
Buggery is found in legal history and old statutes, rarely in current everyday speech.
- The old statute made buggery a serious criminal offence.
- Historians study how buggery laws were enforced in earlier centuries.
- The word buggery appears in many nineteenth-century court records.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUGGERY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BUGGERY
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Common questions about BUGGERY
- Is BUGGERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUGGERY, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUGGERY worth?
- BUGGERY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUGGERY mean?
- A legal term, now old-fashioned, for anal intercourse and for certain sexual acts that old statutes treated as crimes.
- What letters can be added to BUGGERY?
- No single letter can be added to BUGGERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of BUGGERY:
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