DILLY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. DILLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DILLY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DILLY is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DILLY
No single letter turns DILLY into another word.
How DILLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DILLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What stands out about DILLY
- The letters of DILLY run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DILLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalNorth American
Something excellent or remarkable.
Dilly is American and old-fashioned, and it is used about a thing rather than a person: a dilly of a storm, a dilly of a bruise. It serves for good and bad alike, which is unusual — the word marks the size of something and leaves the judgement to the sentence around it.
How DILLY is used
Countable, nearly always in a dilly of a — a dilly of a problem.
- That was a dilly of a storm and it took the roof with it.
- He came home with a dilly of a black eye.
- The second act is a dilly and the first is not.
- A dilly of a mistake takes years to live down.
- The word dilly says how big and not how good.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DILLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of DILLY
The 5 tiles of DILLY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with DILLY
4 longer words begin with DILLY.
Words ending in DILLY
4 words end in DILLY. Useful as a back hook: play DILLY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in DILLY
Common questions about DILLY
- Is DILLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DILLY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DILLY worth?
- DILLY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DILLY mean?
- Something excellent or remarkable.
- What letters can be added to DILLY?
- No single letter can be added to DILLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DILLY:
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