GIPPY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. GIPPY 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 not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GIPPY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GIPPY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GIPPY
No single letter turns GIPPY into another word.
How GIPPY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GIPPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,394 thousand.
What stands out about GIPPY
- The letters of GIPPY run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does GIPPY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Britishinformal
Relating to or causing an upset stomach, especially diarrhea contracted while travelling in a hot climate.
Gippy survives almost entirely in the phrase gippy tummy, a British informal way of naming the stomach trouble that hits travellers unused to local food or water. The word began as a shortening tied to Egypt, from soldiers and travellers who associated the condition with time spent there, though speakers today rarely think about that origin. Older dialect sources also record gippy as a name for the starling, a completely separate and unrelated sense that has mostly dropped out of use. In current British speech gippy almost always points to the stomach complaint rather than the bird.
How GIPPY is used
British informal, almost always found in the set phrase gippy tummy.
- He picked up a gippy tummy on the last day of the trip.
- She blamed the street food for her gippy stomach.
- A gippy tummy can ruin the middle of a holiday.
- The guide warned everyone about gippy water on the trail.
- His gippy tummy kept him near the hotel room all morning.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GIPPY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GIPPY
Common questions about GIPPY
- Is GIPPY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GIPPY is not in it.
- How many points is GIPPY worth?
- GIPPY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GIPPY mean?
- Relating to or causing an upset stomach, especially diarrhea contracted while travelling in a hot climate.
- What letters can be added to GIPPY?
- No single letter can be added to GIPPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GIPPY:
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