JIMPY is a valid Scrabble word — 19 points
Yes. JIMPY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 19 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JIMPY?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JIMPY is to know. It scores 19 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JIMPY
No single letter turns JIMPY into another word.
How JIMPY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JIMPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What stands out about JIMPY
- JIMPY scores 19 points, more than twice the average for a 5-letter word (9.2).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does JIMPY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectScots
Neat, slender and trim, or, of an amount, barely sufficient.
Jimpy describes either a person or thing that looks tidy and slim, or a quantity so small it is scarcely enough. It is an old dialect sense related to the word jimp.
How JIMPY is used
Rare dialect adjective, chiefly Scots.
- The tailor admired her jimpy waist in the new dress.
- He praised the jimpy lines of the small wooden boat.
- Their jimpy supply of flour barely lasted the week.
- The dancer had a jimpy figure that suited the costume.
- A jimpy portion of soup was all the inn could offer.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JIMPY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in JIMPY
Common questions about JIMPY
- Is JIMPY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JIMPY, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JIMPY worth?
- JIMPY is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JIMPY mean?
- Neat, slender and trim, or, of an amount, barely sufficient.
- What letters can be added to JIMPY?
- No single letter can be added to JIMPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JIMPY:
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