GLOBY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. GLOBY 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 GLOBY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GLOBY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GLOBY
No single letter turns GLOBY into another word.
How GLOBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GLOBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does GLOBY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literaryrare
Shaped like a globe or sphere; rounded evenly on every side.
Older poetic and descriptive writing uses globy for anything that swells into a full, ball-like curve, from a drop of dew to a fruit or a lamp shade, favouring it over the plainer spherical for its softer sound. It is rarely met outside such deliberately ornate description.
How GLOBY is used
Rare and literary; found mostly in older descriptive or poetic prose.
- The poem lingers on a single globy drop of dew.
- A globy lantern hung above the market stall.
- The sculptor smoothed the clay into a globy mass.
- Sunlight caught the globy surface of the ripening melon.
- The old travel account calls the dome a great globy roof of glass.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GLOBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GLOBY
Common questions about GLOBY
- Is GLOBY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GLOBY is not in it.
- How many points is GLOBY worth?
- GLOBY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GLOBY mean?
- Shaped like a globe or sphere; rounded evenly on every side.
- What letters can be added to GLOBY?
- No single letter can be added to GLOBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GLOBY:
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