DIGAMY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. DIGAMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DIGAMY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DIGAMY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DIGAMY
No single letter turns DIGAMY into another word.
How DIGAMY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DIGAMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 306,598.
What does DIGAMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
formal
The act or state of marrying for a second time after the end of a first marriage.
Digamy is a learned term, built from Greek roots that point to a second union. It turns up in legal, historical and church writing, where the exact number of a person's marriages can matter for inheritance or for rules about holding office. In everyday speech people simply say remarriage.
How DIGAMY is used
Formal and uncommon; mostly met in history, law and church discussion.
- Early church councils argued over whether digamy should bar a man from the priesthood.
- The scholar traced how digamy was viewed in different centuries.
- Her digamy, after the death of her first husband, was recorded in the parish register.
- Some old codes treated digamy with suspicion, others with indifference.
- The essay compares digamy with the stricter ideal of a single marriage.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DIGAMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DIGAMY
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Common questions about DIGAMY
- Is DIGAMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DIGAMY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DIGAMY worth?
- DIGAMY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DIGAMY mean?
- The act or state of marrying for a second time after the end of a first marriage.
- What letters can be added to DIGAMY?
- No single letter can be added to DIGAMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DIGAMY:
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