CRUDY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. CRUDY 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CRUDY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRUDY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRUDY
No single letter turns CRUDY into another word.
How CRUDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CRUDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does CRUDY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaic
Full of raw, undigested matter, or thickened and unrefined.
Older medical writing used crudy for blood or humours believed to hold undigested matter, and for liquids that had not been properly refined. The word is an older relative of crude, but it kept a narrower, more physical sense that plain crude never carried. It is now confined to historical medical and alchemical texts.
How CRUDY is used
Archaic; found in old medical and scientific writing, not current speech.
- The old treatise blamed illness on crudy blood.
- He described the mixture as crudy and unfit to drink.
- Crudy humours were thought to cause sluggishness.
- The text calls the vapour crudy and heavy.
- A crudy liquor needed further boiling before use.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRUDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CRUDY
The 5 tiles of CRUDY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in CRUDY
Common questions about CRUDY
- Is CRUDY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CRUDY is not in it.
- How many points is CRUDY worth?
- CRUDY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRUDY mean?
- Full of raw, undigested matter, or thickened and unrefined.
- What letters can be added to CRUDY?
- No single letter can be added to CRUDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CRUDY:
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