DUPLY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. DUPLY 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DUPLY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DUPLY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DUPLY
No single letter turns DUPLY into another word.
How DUPLY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DUPLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 294,092.
What does DUPLY mean in Scrabble?
adverb
archaicrare
In twofold measure; doubly.
Duply is an old adverb built on duple, the earlier word for double, and it was used where a modern writer would simply say doubly. It has fallen almost entirely out of use and now appears mostly in glossaries of archaic English rather than in live prose.
How DUPLY is used
Archaic and rare; encountered chiefly in older texts and word lists.
- The old treatise says the debt was duply owed.
- He argued the insult was duply meant, against both men at once.
- A footnote glosses duply as an old form of doubly.
- The clerk recorded the sum as duply reckoned.
- Few modern readers meet duply outside a dictionary of archaisms.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DUPLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DUPLY
1 longer words begin with DUPLY.
Shorter words from the letters in DUPLY
Common questions about DUPLY
- Is DUPLY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DUPLY is not in it.
- How many points is DUPLY worth?
- DUPLY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DUPLY mean?
- In twofold measure; doubly.
- What letters can be added to DUPLY?
- No single letter can be added to DUPLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DUPLY:
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