PIGMY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. PIGMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PIGMY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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 PIGMY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PIGMY
No single letter turns PIGMY into another word.
How PIGMY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PIGMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does PIGMY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Notably smaller than the usual size for its kind; a variant spelling of pygmy.
Pigmy appears as an alternative form of pygmy in older or British texts, applied mainly to unusually small animals and plants rather than to people. Naturalists have long used pigmy in species names such as the pigmy hippopotamus and the pigmy shrew, both markedly smaller than their common relatives. The spelling varies between sources, with pygmy now the more standard form in most dictionaries, while pigmy survives in older scientific literature and certain fixed species names. Both spellings trace back to a Greek word for the forearm, an ancient unit used to suggest something knee-high or smaller.
How PIGMY is used
Now a less common variant spelling, encountered mainly in older texts and in the names of small animal species.
- The pigmy hippopotamus is far smaller than its well-known African cousin.
- Field guides once listed the pigmy shrew as one of the smallest mammals.
- The old manual printed pigmy where a modern text would print pygmy.
- A pigmy variety of the shrub grows barely a foot tall.
- Naturalists debated whether pigmy or pygmy should appear in the new edition.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PIGMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PIGMY
The 5 tiles of PIGMY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PIGMY
Common questions about PIGMY
- Is PIGMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PIGMY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PIGMY worth?
- PIGMY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PIGMY mean?
- Notably smaller than the usual size for its kind; a variant spelling of pygmy.
- What letters can be added to PIGMY?
- No single letter can be added to PIGMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PIGMY:
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