DANNY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. DANNY 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 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DANNY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DANNY is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DANNY
No single letter turns DANNY into another word.
How DANNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DANNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 69,711.
What does DANNY mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectchildishBritish
The hand, especially in speech aimed at young children.
Danny is an affectionate dialect word for the hand, also spelled donny, and it is mostly heard when adults talk to small children, much like saying tootsies for feet. It belongs to a small family of childish body-part words used in nursery speech across parts of Britain and Ireland.
How DANNY is used
Used in childish or nursery speech, especially British and Irish, rather than adult standard English.
- Give me your danny so I can help you across.
- Mind your danny near the hot stove.
- The toddler waved her tiny danny at the window.
- Hold my danny while we cross the road.
- He kissed the child's danny to soothe the scrape.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DANNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DANNY
Common questions about DANNY
- Is DANNY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DANNY is not in it.
- How many points is DANNY worth?
- DANNY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DANNY mean?
- The hand, especially in speech aimed at young children.
- What letters can be added to DANNY?
- No single letter can be added to DANNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DANNY:
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