HOBBY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. HOBBY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOBBY?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOBBY is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOBBY
No single letter turns HOBBY into another word.
How HOBBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HOBBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,353 thousand.
What does HOBBY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A pastime or activity that a person does regularly for pleasure or relaxation, rather than for work or necessity.
A hobby is something a person chooses to do in free time purely for enjoyment, such as gardening, painting, or collecting stamps. Because it is not tied to earning a living, a hobby can be picked up or dropped without any professional consequence. The word can also apply to a small breed of falcon, but the everyday sense is always about leisure.
How HOBBY is used
Common in everyday speech; a hobby is usually named directly, as in a hobby of woodworking.
- Gardening became her favorite hobby after she retired.
- He spends every weekend on his hobby of restoring old radios.
- Photography started as a hobby before it turned into a career.
- Collecting stamps was a common hobby among children of that generation.
- Her hobby of birdwatching took her to marshes at dawn.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOBBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOBBY
9 longer words begin with HOBBY.
Shorter words from the letters in HOBBY
Common questions about HOBBY
- Is HOBBY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOBBY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOBBY worth?
- HOBBY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOBBY mean?
- A pastime or activity that a person does regularly for pleasure or relaxation, rather than for work or necessity.
- What letters can be added to HOBBY?
- No single letter can be added to HOBBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HOBBY:
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