DIP is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. DIP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DIP?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DIP is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DIP
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DIP scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in DIP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does DIP mean in Scrabble?
verb
To put something briefly into a liquid.
Dip covers a movement, a sauce, a swim and a fall in a graph, and every one keeps the same picture: down and then up again. Sheep dip is the exception — there the animal goes in once, and the word became the name of the chemical rather than the action.
How DIP is used
Transitive and intransitive. Also a noun.
- She dipped the brush and wiped most of it off.
- The road dips and then climbs harder than before.
- They went for a dip before breakfast in October.
- The dip went round and came back untouched.
- Sheep dip names the chemical rather than the action.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DIP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DIP
Showing 24 of 218 words that begin with DIP.
Words ending in DIP
1 words end in DIP. Useful as a back hook: play DIP onto a word already on the board.
Words with DIP inside
Showing 24 of 60 words that contain DIP somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DIP are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DIP
Common questions about DIP
- Is DIP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DIP, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DIP worth?
- DIP is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DIP mean?
- To put something briefly into a liquid.
- What letters can be added to DIP?
- DIP takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of DIP:
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