FIGGY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. FIGGY 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 13 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept FIGGY?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FIGGY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FIGGY
No single letter turns FIGGY into another word.
How FIGGY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FIGGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 697,107.
What does FIGGY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectBritish
Made with figs, or with dried fruit generally.
Figgy pudding is the carol's contribution to the word, and the joke is that the pudding in question usually had raisins in it: in the west of England any dried fruit was a fig, and figgy meant studded with them. The narrower sense arrived later, once the actual thing stopped being a luxury.
How FIGGY is used
Placed before the noun — figgy pudding, figgy cake. Chiefly British.
- The carol asks for figgy pudding and will not go until it gets some.
- Her figgy cake has no figs in it and never did.
- A figgy pudding steams for four hours.
- They call anything with dried fruit figgy in that part of the country.
- The recipe is figgy in the old sense of the word.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FIGGY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FIGGY
Common questions about FIGGY
- Is FIGGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FIGGY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FIGGY worth?
- FIGGY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FIGGY mean?
- Made with figs, or with dried fruit generally.
- What letters can be added to FIGGY?
- No single letter can be added to FIGGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FIGGY:
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