LIMBY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. LIMBY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LIMBY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LIMBY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LIMBY
No single letter turns LIMBY into another word.
How LIMBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LIMBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does LIMBY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Having limbs, especially long, numerous or noticeably prominent ones.
Limby is used to describe a tree, plant or creature whose limbs stand out, whether because they are unusually long, unusually many, or simply easy to see against the trunk or body. Foresters sometimes call a tree limby when its lower branches have not been shed naturally and still crowd the trunk, which affects how the timber is cut. The word can also apply loosely to a lanky person or animal whose arms and legs seem to dominate its frame. Limby is built from limb the same way that leafy is built from leaf, adding the sense of being covered in or full of the thing named.
How LIMBY is used
Rare, met mostly in forestry and descriptions of lanky bodies or branching trees.
- The old oak was too limby to make good straight lumber.
- A limby colt often grows into a tall, rangy horse.
- Loggers avoid cutting through the limby lower section of the trunk.
- The cartoon showed a limby stick figure waving both arms.
- Pruning early keeps a young tree from turning limby.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LIMBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LIMBY
The 5 tiles of LIMBY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in LIMBY
Common questions about LIMBY
- Is LIMBY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LIMBY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LIMBY worth?
- LIMBY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LIMBY mean?
- Having limbs, especially long, numerous or noticeably prominent ones.
- What letters can be added to LIMBY?
- No single letter can be added to LIMBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LIMBY:
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