PADDY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. PADDY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PADDY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PADDY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PADDY
No single letter turns PADDY into another word.
How PADDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PADDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does PADDY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A flooded or irrigated field used for growing rice, or the rice growing in it.
A paddy is flooded with water for much of the growing season, since rice thrives with its roots standing in shallow water rather than in ordinary dry soil. Farmers plant seedlings by hand into the flooded paddy and drain it before harvest so the grain can ripen and dry. The word can refer either to the field itself or, less often, to the unmilled rice still in its husk. Large parts of Asia depend on paddy farming, and the flooded fields are a familiar sight across much of the region.
How PADDY is used
Used mainly in agriculture and geography to describe rice fields and rice farming.
- The workers waded through the paddy planting seedlings in neat rows.
- Water buffalo pulled the plough through the flooded paddy.
- The hillside was terraced into paddy after paddy down to the river.
- Farmers drained the paddy weeks before the rice was ready to cut.
- From the plane the paddy fields looked like a patchwork of mirrors.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PADDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with PADDY
8 longer words begin with PADDY.
Shorter words from the letters in PADDY
Common questions about PADDY
- Is PADDY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PADDY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PADDY worth?
- PADDY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PADDY mean?
- A flooded or irrigated field used for growing rice, or the rice growing in it.
- What letters can be added to PADDY?
- No single letter can be added to PADDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PADDY:
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