CROUPY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CROUPY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CROUPY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CROUPY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CROUPY
No single letter turns CROUPY into another word.
How CROUPY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CROUPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 776,076.
What does CROUPY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Suffering from croup, or sounding like the harsh barking cough that croup causes.
Croup is an infection that swells the windpipe of small children and gives them a hoarse, barking cough. A croupy child is one who has this illness, and a croupy cough is the tell-tale sound parents learn to recognise at night. The word is mostly met in older family memoirs and in medical writing about children.
How CROUPY is used
Used of a child, a voice or a cough.
- The baby woke at midnight with a croupy cough.
- A croupy child often feels better in cool night air.
- Her voice was hoarse and croupy after the long cold.
- The nurse warned them that the croupy sound meant a doctor should be called.
- He was kept home from school for a week, croupy and tired.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CROUPY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CROUPY
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Common questions about CROUPY
- Is CROUPY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CROUPY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CROUPY worth?
- CROUPY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CROUPY mean?
- Suffering from croup, or sounding like the harsh barking cough that croup causes.
- What letters can be added to CROUPY?
- No single letter can be added to CROUPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CROUPY:
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