PIDDLY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. PIDDLY 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 PIDDLY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PIDDLY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PIDDLY
No single letter turns PIDDLY into another word.
How PIDDLY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PIDDLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What stands out about PIDDLY
- PIDDLY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PIDDLY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
So small or unimportant that it hardly deserves notice; trifling.
Speakers use piddly with a touch of scorn, usually about an amount, a payment or a task that seems too slight to bother with. It suggests that the thing is not merely small but disappointingly so. The word is plainly casual and would look out of place in formal writing. It goes with the idea of piddling, as in piddling little sums.
How PIDDLY is used
Informal and mildly dismissive; common in speech.
- He argued for an hour over a piddly sum of two dollars.
- The piddly raise barely covered the bus fare.
- Why waste a whole meeting on such a piddly detail?
- Their piddly offer was laughed out of the room.
- It was a piddly job, but someone had to do it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PIDDLY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PIDDLY
Common questions about PIDDLY
- Is PIDDLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PIDDLY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PIDDLY worth?
- PIDDLY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PIDDLY mean?
- So small or unimportant that it hardly deserves notice; trifling.
- What letters can be added to PIDDLY?
- No single letter can be added to PIDDLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PIDDLY:
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