OUTBY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. OUTBY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OUTBY?
| 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 OUTBY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OUTBY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
outbyeChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How OUTBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in OUTBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does OUTBY mean in Scrabble?
adverb
Scotsdialect
Out of doors, outside, or a little way off; in coal mining, in the direction away from the working face toward the entrance of the mine.
In everyday Scots dialect, outby simply means outside or a short distance away, the opposite of describing something as being right at hand indoors. The word took on a second, more technical life underground, where miners use outby to describe the direction leading away from the coalface toward the mine entrance, opposite to inby. Both senses share the same core idea of moving away from a central point, whether that point is a house or a working face far below ground.
How OUTBY is used
Common in Scots dialect for outside or nearby, and used technically in mining to describe direction within a pit.
- The bairns were sent outby to play while the rain held off.
- He stepped outby for a breath of air before the meeting.
- Miners moved the damaged cars outby toward the shaft entrance.
- The old farmhouse stood a little outby from the village.
- Ventilation carried stale air outby, away from the coalface.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OUTBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with OUTBY
1 longer words begin with OUTBY.
Shorter words from the letters in OUTBY
Common questions about OUTBY
- Is OUTBY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OUTBY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OUTBY worth?
- OUTBY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OUTBY mean?
- Out of doors, outside, or a little way off; in coal mining, in the direction away from the working face toward the entrance of the mine.
- What letters can be added to OUTBY?
- OUTBY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of OUTBY:
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