DOXY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. DOXY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DOXY?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOXY is to know. It scores 15 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOXY
No single letter turns DOXY into another word.
How DOXY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DOXY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 61,269.
What does DOXY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A mistress or a disreputable woman.
Doxy is sixteenth-century thieves' cant with an unknown origin. A separate doxy means an opinion or doctrine, and it survives in one joke: orthodoxy is my doxy, and heterodoxy is another man's.
How DOXY is used
Countable: a doxy, two doxies. Archaic.
- A doxy in a Restoration comedy is a fixed character type.
- The word doxy began as thieves' cant.
- Orthodoxy is my doxy is an eighteenth-century joke.
- A doxy meaning a doctrine is a separate word.
- Nobody has used doxy seriously in two hundred years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOXY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DOXY
2 longer words begin with DOXY.
Words ending in DOXY
6 words end in DOXY. Useful as a back hook: play DOXY onto a word already on the board.
Words with DOXY inside
2 words contain DOXY in the middle. Words that start with DOXY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DOXY
Common questions about DOXY
- Is DOXY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOXY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOXY worth?
- DOXY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOXY mean?
- A mistress or a disreputable woman.
- What letters can be added to DOXY?
- No single letter can be added to DOXY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DOXY:
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