ROOKY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. ROOKY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROOKY?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ROOKY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROOKY
No single letter turns ROOKY into another word.
How ROOKY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ROOKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 224,070.
What does ROOKY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalrare
Inexperienced and new to a job or activity, a variant form related to rookie.
A rooky worker is someone still learning the basics, likely to make the small mistakes that come with being new. The word is an older or dialect adjective form standing behind the now more familiar noun rookie, and it turns up occasionally in older writing about sport or the armed forces. Someone described as rooky is not being insulted so much as identified as new to the role. The form has largely been replaced in everyday use by rookie, but it still appears in dictionaries and older texts.
How ROOKY is used
Rare and mostly literary or dialect now, largely replaced by rookie in ordinary speech.
- The rooky recruit struggled with the drill on his first morning.
- Older sports writing sometimes called a new player rooky rather than rookie.
- He felt rooky and unsure among the experienced crew.
- The sergeant was patient with the rooky soldiers.
- A rooky mistake cost the team an easy point.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROOKY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ROOKY
Common questions about ROOKY
- Is ROOKY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROOKY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROOKY worth?
- ROOKY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROOKY mean?
- Inexperienced and new to a job or activity, a variant form related to rookie.
- What letters can be added to ROOKY?
- No single letter can be added to ROOKY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ROOKY:
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