PEGGY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. PEGGY 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 accept it.
Which word lists accept PEGGY?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PEGGY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PEGGY
No single letter turns PEGGY into another word.
How PEGGY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PEGGY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 522,830.
What does PEGGY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Britishregionaldialect
A wooden implement used to stir and pound clothes when washing them in a tub.
A peggy, sometimes called a peggy stick, was worked by hand in a peggy tub to push soapy water through washing before machines took over the job. The word survives mainly in older accounts of household life in northern England.
How PEGGY is used
Regional and largely historical, tied to older laundry practice.
- Her grandmother still kept the old peggy in the shed.
- The peggy churned the washing in the tub each Monday.
- A museum display showed a peggy beside its wooden tub.
- Turning the peggy for an hour left her arms aching.
- The peggy has mostly been replaced by the washing machine.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PEGGY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PEGGY
Common questions about PEGGY
- Is PEGGY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PEGGY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PEGGY worth?
- PEGGY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PEGGY mean?
- A wooden implement used to stir and pound clothes when washing them in a tub.
- What letters can be added to PEGGY?
- No single letter can be added to PEGGY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PEGGY:
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