FUMY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FUMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FUMY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FUMY is to know. It scores 12 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FUMY
No single letter turns FUMY into another word.
How FUMY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in FUMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 122,538.
What does FUMY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Full of fumes, or giving them off.
Fumy is rare and mostly poetic, since ordinary writing reaches for a longer phrase instead. It is built on a Latin word for smoke, the same root behind perfume and fumigate.
How FUMY is used
Before the noun. Chiefly literary.
- A fumy workshop with one window painted shut.
- The word fumy shares a root with perfume.
- Fumy air in a tunnel with no extraction.
- Ordinary writing avoids fumy for a longer phrase.
- Fumigate and fumy come from the same Latin word.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FUMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in FUMY
1 words end in FUMY. Useful as a back hook: play FUMY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in FUMY
Common questions about FUMY
- Is FUMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FUMY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FUMY worth?
- FUMY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FUMY mean?
- Full of fumes, or giving them off.
- What letters can be added to FUMY?
- No single letter can be added to FUMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of FUMY:
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