MOPERY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. MOPERY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MOPERY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MOPERY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MOPERY
No single letter turns MOPERY into another word.
How MOPERY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in MOPERY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What does MOPERY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalNorth American
Aimless loitering or a trivial offence of that sort, sometimes named as a catch-all charge.
Mopery comes from the verb mope and was shaped to sound like a legal term such as perjury or robbery. It is most often met in the jokey phrase about being arrested for mopery, meaning for no real crime at all. A related, older sense of the word is low spirits or idle gloom.
How MOPERY is used
Humorous and slangy; heard in American speech about vague or invented offences.
- The officer threatened to run him in for mopery.
- Nobody could say what mopery actually was, but the sign made everyone laugh.
- He spent the afternoon in mopery on the park bench.
- The comedian joked that the charge of mopery covered everything.
- A teenager hanging around the corner store can seem guilty of mopery to some neighbours.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MOPERY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MOPERY
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Common questions about MOPERY
- Is MOPERY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MOPERY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MOPERY worth?
- MOPERY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MOPERY mean?
- Aimless loitering or a trivial offence of that sort, sometimes named as a catch-all charge.
- What letters can be added to MOPERY?
- No single letter can be added to MOPERY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of MOPERY:
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