DOWLY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. DOWLY 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DOWLY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOWLY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOWLY
No single letter turns DOWLY into another word.
How DOWLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DOWLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 147,046.
What does DOWLY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectregional
Dull, gloomy or low in spirits.
Dowly survives in northern English dialect speech and describes weather, a place or a mood that feels flat and joyless rather than sharply unpleasant. It shares a root with the related dialect word dowie, and both sit alongside standard words such as dreary without ever entering everyday national usage. Dictionaries mark dowly as regional rather than obsolete because it is still used in some areas.
How DOWLY is used
Regional; heard mainly in northern English dialect rather than standard speech.
- It was a dowly sort of morning, grey from edge to edge.
- She called the empty house dowly without the children in it.
- The moor looked dowly under the low cloud.
- He felt dowly after the letter arrived.
- A dowly week followed the funeral.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOWLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DOWLY
Common questions about DOWLY
- Is DOWLY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DOWLY is not in it.
- How many points is DOWLY worth?
- DOWLY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOWLY mean?
- Dull, gloomy or low in spirits.
- What letters can be added to DOWLY?
- No single letter can be added to DOWLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DOWLY:
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