LOONY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. LOONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LOONY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LOONY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LOONY
No single letter turns LOONY into another word.
How LOONY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LOONY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 56,018.
What does LOONY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Crazy, foolish, or wildly eccentric; not sensible.
Loony describes an idea, plan or piece of behaviour so far from ordinary sense that it seems almost comic, and speakers reach for it in casual conversation rather than in careful or formal writing. The word can also work as a noun for a person seen as behaving this way, though that use sounds blunter and is best avoided as a description of anyone with a genuine mental illness. It likely grew as a playful shortening of lunatic, keeping a light, informal tone that the older word never really had.
How LOONY is used
Informal, used in everyday speech for ideas or behaviour seen as wildly foolish rather than sensible.
- His loony scheme involved painting the house purple overnight.
- Everyone thought the idea sounded completely loony.
- She laughed off the loony rumour circulating online.
- It was a loony plan, but somehow it worked.
- They dismissed the proposal as loony at first.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LOONY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in LOONY
Common questions about LOONY
- Is LOONY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LOONY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LOONY worth?
- LOONY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LOONY mean?
- Crazy, foolish, or wildly eccentric; not sensible.
- What letters can be added to LOONY?
- No single letter can be added to LOONY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LOONY:
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