COMBY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. COMBY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept COMBY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COMBY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COMBY
No single letter turns COMBY into another word.
How COMBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in COMBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 588,184.
What does COMBY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
raretechnical
Marked with small regular holes or ridges, like the cells of a honeycomb or the teeth of a comb.
Comby describes a surface or structure that looks as though it has been pressed with a comb or riddled with a honeycomb of tiny holes. Geologists sometimes use the word for a banded, ridged texture seen in certain mineral veins, where thin layers stand up like the teeth of a comb. The same idea carries over to any material pitted with small regular cavities. It is a rare, mostly technical word rather than one used in everyday speech.
How COMBY is used
Rare outside technical or descriptive writing about textures and mineral structures.
- The vein showed a comby texture under the microscope.
- Its comby surface looked like rows of tiny teeth.
- Geologists noted the comby banding in the quartz sample.
- The old sponge had dried into a comby, pitted lump.
- A comby pattern ran across the weathered rock face.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COMBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in COMBY
Common questions about COMBY
- Is COMBY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and COMBY is not in it.
- How many points is COMBY worth?
- COMBY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COMBY mean?
- Marked with small regular holes or ridges, like the cells of a honeycomb or the teeth of a comb.
- What letters can be added to COMBY?
- No single letter can be added to COMBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of COMBY:
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