CRUDDY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CRUDDY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CRUDDY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRUDDY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRUDDY
No single letter turns CRUDDY into another word.
How CRUDDY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CRUDDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,070 thousand.
What stands out about CRUDDY
- CRUDDY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CRUDDY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Dirty, unpleasant or of poor quality.
Cruddy is a casual word for something that is grubby, shabby or simply bad. It comes from crud, a slang term for dirt or rubbish, and it is used where a speaker wants to sound scornful without being truly rude. You might call a flat, a job or a day cruddy.
How CRUDDY is used
Informal, mostly North American; avoid in formal writing.
- They rented a cruddy room above a noisy bar.
- It was a cruddy day, and the rain never stopped.
- He wore a cruddy old sweater full of holes.
- The cruddy carpet had not been cleaned in years.
- She quit the cruddy job and started her own shop.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRUDDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CRUDDY
Common questions about CRUDDY
- Is CRUDDY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CRUDDY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CRUDDY worth?
- CRUDDY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRUDDY mean?
- Dirty, unpleasant or of poor quality.
- What letters can be added to CRUDDY?
- No single letter can be added to CRUDDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CRUDDY:
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