DOBBY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. DOBBY 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 DOBBY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOBBY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOBBY
No single letter turns DOBBY into another word.
How DOBBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DOBBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,176 thousand.
What does DOBBY mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A mechanism attached to a loom that controls the raising and lowering of individual warp threads, allowing small geometric figures to be woven into cloth.
A dobby sits above or beside a loom and reads a pattern, usually punched or pegged, to lift particular threads in sequence, producing small repeating designs such as diamonds or dots that a plain loom cannot make. Cloth woven this way is itself called dobby fabric, and the technique sits between simple plain weaving and the far more complex figures possible on a jacquard loom. Weavers value the dobby for patterns too intricate for a hand-operated shuttle but too simple to justify a full jacquard mechanism. The word is used mainly among weavers, mill workers and textile historians.
How DOBBY is used
A specialist textile term, encountered mainly in weaving instruction and the history of the cloth trade.
- The mill installed a new dobby to weave the diamond pattern.
- Cloth from that loom is known in the trade as dobby weave.
- She studied how a dobby lifts each warp thread in sequence.
- The old dobby still worked after decades of continuous use.
- Weavers preferred the dobby for patterns too fine for a plain loom.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOBBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DOBBY
Common questions about DOBBY
- Is DOBBY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOBBY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOBBY worth?
- DOBBY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOBBY mean?
- A mechanism attached to a loom that controls the raising and lowering of individual warp threads, allowing small geometric figures to be woven into cloth.
- What letters can be added to DOBBY?
- No single letter can be added to DOBBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DOBBY:
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