DROPSY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. DROPSY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DROPSY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DROPSY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DROPSY
No single letter turns DROPSY into another word.
How DROPSY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in DROPSY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 388,038.
What stands out about DROPSY
- DROPSY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DROPSY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicmedical
An old name for the painful swelling of the body caused by watery fluid collecting in its tissues or cavities.
Dropsy is what physicians once called what is now known as edema, the build-up of fluid under the skin or inside the body. It was recognised as a sign of failing hearts, kidneys or livers rather than as a disease in itself, which is why modern doctors name the underlying illness instead. The word is still met in nineteenth-century novels and letters, where a character dying of dropsy is a familiar figure.
How DROPSY is used
Archaic in medicine; now found chiefly in historical writing and older literature.
- The old man was said to have died of dropsy.
- Her legs were swollen with dropsy for most of that winter.
- The doctor prescribed foxglove as a treatment for dropsy.
- Dropsy was a common word in Victorian sickroom novels.
- In those days dropsy covered several different conditions.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DROPSY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DROPSY
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Common questions about DROPSY
- Is DROPSY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DROPSY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DROPSY worth?
- DROPSY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DROPSY mean?
- An old name for the painful swelling of the body caused by watery fluid collecting in its tissues or cavities.
- What letters can be added to DROPSY?
- No single letter can be added to DROPSY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of DROPSY:
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