DOLLY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. DOLLY 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 DOLLY?
| 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 DOLLY is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOLLY
No single letter turns DOLLY into another word.
How DOLLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DOLLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does DOLLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A wheeled platform that carries a camera smoothly while it films.
A dolly runs on rails or on soft tyres, and the point of it is what it takes away: the shake that a person walking cannot avoid. The word does other work as well — a child's doll, a small warehouse trolley and an easy catch in cricket all answer to it, and only the last of them is an insult.
How DOLLY is used
Countable: a dolly, two dollies. Also a verb — to dolly in is to move the camera towards the subject.
- The dolly ran on rails laid that same morning.
- They put the camera on a dolly for the whole take.
- A dolly move reads as calm and a handheld one does not.
- The dolly grip is the person who pushes it.
- He dropped a dolly at slip and never heard the end of it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOLLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DOLLY
3 longer words begin with DOLLY.
Shorter words from the letters in DOLLY
Common questions about DOLLY
- Is DOLLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOLLY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOLLY worth?
- DOLLY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOLLY mean?
- A wheeled platform that carries a camera smoothly while it films.
- What letters can be added to DOLLY?
- No single letter can be added to DOLLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DOLLY:
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