DAUBY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. DAUBY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DAUBY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DAUBY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DAUBY
No single letter turns DAUBY into another word.
How DAUBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DAUBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does DAUBY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
raredialect
Sticky or smeary, like a thick daub of paint, mud, or plaster; adhesive and messy to the touch.
Dauby traces to the older verb daub, meaning to coat a surface with something soft and clinging, and the adjective keeps that same half-wet, grasping feel. Builders and dialect speakers once reached for dauby to describe hands or walls left grimy and tacky after working with wet render or clay, a texture that clings to fingers rather than brushing away cleanly. The word carries a faintly unpleasant, unfinished quality, picturing careless spreading rather than a tidy, controlled job. Though rarely heard today, dauby remains understandable through its link to the common verb daub, still used for slapping a rough coating onto a wall.
How DAUBY is used
Rare and mostly historical or dialect, found in older descriptions of plastering, building work, or messy handling of sticky substances.
- His hands were left dauby after mixing the plaster.
- The old wall had a dauby coating of lime and mud.
- She wiped the dauby paint from the brush handle.
- The workers complained about the dauby mess left by the render.
- A dauby residue clung to the tools after the job was done.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DAUBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DAUBY
Common questions about DAUBY
- Is DAUBY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DAUBY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DAUBY worth?
- DAUBY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DAUBY mean?
- Sticky or smeary, like a thick daub of paint, mud, or plaster; adhesive and messy to the touch.
- What letters can be added to DAUBY?
- No single letter can be added to DAUBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DAUBY:
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