DAMPY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. DAMPY 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DAMPY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DAMPY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DAMPY
No single letter turns DAMPY into another word.
How DAMPY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DAMPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does DAMPY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicdialect
Somewhat damp; moist.
Dampy is an old and now rare adjective built the way many minor English words were formed, by adding -y to an existing noun or adjective, here damp. Because damp itself once named low spirits as well as moisture, early writers also used dampy for a dejected, gloomy mood, so the word could describe wet weather or a wet blanket of feeling depending on context. Modern use is confined to dialect glossaries, antiquarian writing and word games rather than everyday speech.
How DAMPY is used
Archaic and dialectal; met chiefly in older texts and specialist word lists, not in current speech.
- The cellar felt dampy after the week of rain.
- A dampy mist hung over the fields at dawn.
- He wrote of a dampy October evening in his diary.
- The old glossary lists dampy beside damp and dank.
- Her letters from that dampy autumn read as gloomy as the weather.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DAMPY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DAMPY
Common questions about DAMPY
- Is DAMPY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DAMPY is not in it.
- How many points is DAMPY worth?
- DAMPY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DAMPY mean?
- Somewhat damp; moist.
- What letters can be added to DAMPY?
- No single letter can be added to DAMPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DAMPY:
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