DODDY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. DODDY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DODDY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DODDY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DODDY
No single letter turns DODDY into another word.
How DODDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DODDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 3 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,176 thousand.
What does DODDY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scotsdialect
Without horns; used of cattle in Scots dialect speech.
Farmers in Scots dialect areas used doddy to sort animals at a glance, long before breeding for polled stock became common practice, calling a naturally hornless animal a doddy beast rather than describing its head in full each time. The term stayed tied closely to livestock and rarely spread to anything else.
How DODDY is used
Regional Scots farming term, applied specifically to hornless cattle.
- The farmer kept a doddy cow at the front of the byre.
- A doddy beast is easier to pen with other cattle.
- Buyers at the market asked whether the herd was doddy or horned.
- She pointed out the doddy calf among its horned littermates.
- Old records list which cows in the herd were doddy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DODDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DODDY
2 longer words begin with DODDY.
Shorter words from the letters in DODDY
Common questions about DODDY
- Is DODDY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DODDY is not in it.
- How many points is DODDY worth?
- DODDY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DODDY mean?
- Without horns; used of cattle in Scots dialect speech.
- What letters can be added to DODDY?
- No single letter can be added to DODDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DODDY:
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