DUMMY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. DUMMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DUMMY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DUMMY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DUMMY
No single letter turns DUMMY into another word.
How DUMMY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DUMMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,353 thousand.
What does DUMMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
An object made to resemble a real one, used as a substitute, model or decoy, such as a tailor's mannequin, a rubber teat given to soothe a baby, or a stand-in used in rehearsal or testing.
A dummy stands in for the real thing when the genuine object is unavailable, unsuitable or unnecessary, from a shop-window dummy displaying clothes to a crash-test dummy absorbing the impact meant for a human passenger. In British English, dummy is also the everyday word for the rubber teat given to a baby to suck for comfort, called a pacifier in American English. The word can additionally describe a document, product or building prepared only as a sample or mock-up before the final version exists. Because dummy also means a stupid person in casual speech, writers usually rely on context to keep the two senses apart.
How DUMMY is used
Common across contexts from tailoring and testing to, in British English, the term for a baby's pacifier.
- The tailor pinned the fabric onto a dummy before cutting it.
- Engineers studied how the dummy reacted during the crash test.
- The baby would not settle without her dummy.
- They built a dummy of the new packaging for the meeting.
- The window display used a dummy dressed in the season's coat.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DUMMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DUMMY
1 longer words begin with DUMMY.
Shorter words from the letters in DUMMY
Common questions about DUMMY
- Is DUMMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DUMMY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DUMMY worth?
- DUMMY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DUMMY mean?
- An object made to resemble a real one, used as a substitute, model or decoy, such as a tailor's mannequin, a rubber teat given to soothe a baby, or a stand-in used in rehearsal or testing.
- What letters can be added to DUMMY?
- No single letter can be added to DUMMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DUMMY:
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