PIPPY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. PIPPY 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PIPPY?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PIPPY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PIPPY
No single letter turns PIPPY into another word.
How PIPPY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PIPPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 3 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. PIPPY needs 1 blank tile.
What does PIPPY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Containing many small seeds, or pips, especially in fruit.
Pippy describes fruit that has an unusually large number of small seeds, making it less pleasant to eat. Cooks and gardeners use the word casually when a variety of apple, pear or berry turns out gritty with pips. It is a practical, everyday term rather than a scientific one.
How PIPPY is used
Informal, used mainly in everyday talk about fruit and gardening rather than in botanical writing.
- This pear turned out too pippy to enjoy raw.
- The recipe warns that pippy apples make for gritty sauce.
- She picked the least pippy berries for the tart.
- Old varieties of apple tend to be smaller and pippy.
- He spat out the pippy bits before finishing the slice.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PIPPY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PIPPY
Common questions about PIPPY
- Is PIPPY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PIPPY is not in it.
- How many points is PIPPY worth?
- PIPPY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PIPPY mean?
- Containing many small seeds, or pips, especially in fruit.
- What letters can be added to PIPPY?
- No single letter can be added to PIPPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PIPPY:
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