DHOBI is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. DHOBI is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DHOBI?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DHOBI is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DHOBI
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
dhobisChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DHOBI scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DHOBI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does DHOBI mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian English
A washerman by trade in South Asia, or, more broadly, the work of laundering clothes done as a profession.
A dhobi traditionally collects clothes and linens from households, washes them by hand, often beating the fabric against stone slabs at a riverbank or public washing ground, and returns them cleaned and pressed. The trade has long been organized around dhobi ghats, dedicated open-air laundry areas found in Indian cities, where many washermen work side by side using the same traditional methods. The word entered English through centuries of contact between Britain and South Asia, and it remains standard in Indian English for both the person and the trade. Though modern laundries and washing machines have reduced the trade's scale, dhobis still operate in many South Asian towns and cities today.
How DHOBI is used
Standard in Indian English and South Asian contexts, used for the washerman's trade rather than as informal slang.
- The dhobi collected the household laundry every Monday morning.
- Rows of clothes dried in the sun at the dhobi ghat.
- Her grandfather worked as a dhobi in the old part of the city.
- The hotel sent the guests' shirts out to a local dhobi.
- Tourists photographed the dhobi beating sheets against the stone slabs.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DHOBI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DHOBI
The 5 tiles of DHOBI in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DHOBI
1 longer words begin with DHOBI.
Shorter words from the letters in DHOBI
Common questions about DHOBI
- Is DHOBI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DHOBI, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DHOBI worth?
- DHOBI is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DHOBI mean?
- A washerman by trade in South Asia, or, more broadly, the work of laundering clothes done as a profession.
- What letters can be added to DHOBI?
- DHOBI takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DHOBI:
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