LUMMY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. LUMMY 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 LUMMY?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LUMMY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 2.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LUMMY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How LUMMY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LUMMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,353 thousand.
What does LUMMY mean in Scrabble?
interjection
informalarchaicBritish
A British slang exclamation of surprise or great approval.
Lummy turns up in nineteenth-century London slang, particularly in the speech of working-class characters recorded in the literature of the period. Speakers used lummy both as a stand-alone cry of astonishment and as an adjective tacked onto a noun to mean splendid or first-rate, as in a lummy hat. The word faded from ordinary speech during the twentieth century and now appears mainly in historical fiction or quoted dialogue that aims for period flavour. Because it is tied so closely to a particular era of slang, dictionaries mark lummy as old-fashioned rather than current use.
How LUMMY is used
Archaic and informal; encountered today mainly in nineteenth-century slang glossaries and in dialogue written to sound old-fashioned, not in ordinary modern speech.
- Lummy, cried the boy, staring at the coins in his hand.
- The old book has a costermonger shouting lummy at every turn of surprise.
- He called it a lummy trick, meaning nothing short of brilliant.
- Lummy, said the narrator, imitating the slang of a bygone London street.
- Modern readers meet lummy chiefly in glossaries attached to Victorian novels.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LUMMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in LUMMY
2 words end in LUMMY. Useful as a back hook: play LUMMY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in LUMMY
Common questions about LUMMY
- Is LUMMY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and LUMMY is not in it.
- How many points is LUMMY worth?
- LUMMY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LUMMY mean?
- A British slang exclamation of surprise or great approval.
- What letters can be added to LUMMY?
- LUMMY takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LUMMY:
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