DEFY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. DEFY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DEFY?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DEFY is to know. It scores 11 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DEFY
No single letter turns DEFY into another word.
How DEFY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DEFY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,423.
What does DEFY mean in Scrabble?
verb
To resist something openly and boldly.
Defy came from a French word meaning to renounce faith, which is why a challenge and a refusal sit inside the same word. The phrase about something that will defy description is nineteenth-century.
How DEFY is used
Defied, defying. Takes a person or a rule as object.
- They defy the ban openly and nobody enforces it.
- The word defy once meant to renounce faith.
- A thing that seems to defy description usually has one.
- To defy an order is not the same as ignoring it.
- Both a challenge and a refusal sit inside defy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DEFY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DEFY
1 longer words begin with DEFY.
Words ending in DEFY
2 words end in DEFY. Useful as a back hook: play DEFY onto a word already on the board.
Words with DEFY inside
2 words contain DEFY in the middle. Words that start with DEFY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DEFY
Common questions about DEFY
- Is DEFY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DEFY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DEFY worth?
- DEFY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DEFY mean?
- To resist something openly and boldly.
- What letters can be added to DEFY?
- No single letter can be added to DEFY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DEFY:
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