CULLY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CULLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CULLY?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CULLY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CULLY
No single letter turns CULLY into another word.
How CULLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CULLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 784,245.
What does CULLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicslang
A person who is easily fooled, tricked, or cheated, especially by a swindler; a dupe.
Cully first appeared in English thieves' cant, the private vocabulary criminals used to describe their victims and each other. Later slang softened the word so that a cully could also mean simply a companion or fellow, though the older sense of a gullible mark remains the one most dictionaries record first.
How CULLY is used
Rare today outside historical fiction and dictionaries of old slang and criminal cant.
- The pickpocket picked out a well-dressed cully in the crowd.
- Old thieves' slang used cully for the mark of a con.
- In the play, the cully hands over his purse without noticing the trick.
- Historians study cully and similar cant words to trace old criminal slang.
- He called his drinking companion an old cully from the docks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CULLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CULLY
3 longer words begin with CULLY.
Shorter words from the letters in CULLY
Common questions about CULLY
- Is CULLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CULLY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CULLY worth?
- CULLY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CULLY mean?
- A person who is easily fooled, tricked, or cheated, especially by a swindler; a dupe.
- What letters can be added to CULLY?
- No single letter can be added to CULLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CULLY:
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