LAMMY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. LAMMY 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept LAMMY?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LAMMY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LAMMY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How LAMMY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LAMMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What does LAMMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A thick padded jacket, originally one worn by sailors.
A lammy is quilted for warmth rather than cut for looks, and the word travelled from shipboard use into general dialect for any heavy work jacket. It is also spelled lammie, and either spelling names the same garment rather than two different ones.
How LAMMY is used
Countable: a lammy, two lammies. Informal.
- A lammy kept the cold off on deck long before it became a hallway word.
- He pulled on his lammy before going out to the yard.
- The word lammy is also spelled lammie for the same jacket.
- Quilting is what makes a lammy warm rather than the cut of it.
- Dock workers kept a spare lammy hanging by the door.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LAMMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LAMMY
The 5 tiles of LAMMY in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in LAMMY
2 words end in LAMMY. Useful as a back hook: play LAMMY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in LAMMY
Common questions about LAMMY
- Is LAMMY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LAMMY is not in it.
- How many points is LAMMY worth?
- LAMMY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LAMMY mean?
- A thick padded jacket, originally one worn by sailors.
- What letters can be added to LAMMY?
- LAMMY takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LAMMY:
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