CUNDY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. CUNDY 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 CUNDY?
| 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 CUNDY 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 CUNDY
No single letter turns CUNDY into another word.
How CUNDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CUNDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does CUNDY mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectBritish
A covered drain or culvert running under a road or yard.
Cundy is a northern English and Scots word for the channel that carries water away underground, often where a stream passes beneath a farm track or lane. Local records and place names sometimes preserve the word long after everyday speech has switched to drain or culvert. It is regional rather than obsolete, still heard in some rural dialects.
How CUNDY is used
Regional dialect; used in parts of northern England and Scotland.
- Rainwater from the yard ran off through a stone cundy.
- The old map marks a cundy under the lane.
- Farmers cleared the cundy before the autumn rains.
- A blocked cundy left the field waterlogged.
- The cundy had been built from rough field stone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUNDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CUNDY
Common questions about CUNDY
- Is CUNDY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CUNDY is not in it.
- How many points is CUNDY worth?
- CUNDY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUNDY mean?
- A covered drain or culvert running under a road or yard.
- What letters can be added to CUNDY?
- No single letter can be added to CUNDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CUNDY:
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