LOUSY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. LOUSY 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 LOUSY?
| 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 LOUSY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LOUSY
Front hooks — 1
blousyBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How LOUSY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LOUSY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 73,523.
What does LOUSY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Very poor in quality, unpleasant, or badly done; used informally to criticise something sharply.
People use lousy in casual speech to dismiss almost anything that disappoints them, from a lousy meal to a lousy performance or a lousy day at work. The word literally meant infested with lice, and traces of that harsher original sense survive in the intensity of the modern complaint, even though nobody today thinks of actual insects when they call a film lousy. It can also combine with with, as in lousy with tourists, an older idiom meaning crowded or overrun with something.
How LOUSY is used
Informal, common in everyday speech for expressing sharp disapproval of quality, weather, luck or performance.
- The hotel gave us a lousy room with no view.
- He had a lousy day at the office.
- That was a lousy excuse for being late.
- The beach was lousy with jellyfish that summer.
- Critics called the film a lousy remake of the original.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LOUSY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in LOUSY
3 words end in LOUSY. Useful as a back hook: play LOUSY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in LOUSY
Common questions about LOUSY
- Is LOUSY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LOUSY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LOUSY worth?
- LOUSY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LOUSY mean?
- Very poor in quality, unpleasant, or badly done; used informally to criticise something sharply.
- What letters can be added to LOUSY?
- LOUSY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LOUSY:
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