ROUGHY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ROUGHY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ROUGHY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ROUGHY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ROUGHY
Front hooks — 1
froughyBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ROUGHY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ROUGHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 517,384.
What does ROUGHY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A marine fish with a deep, flattened body and rough-edged scales.
The roughy is known mostly from the name of the orange roughy, a fish that appears in markets and on restaurant menus. Its scales are coarse to the touch, which is how the fish earned a name built on the word rough. The same spelling is also a rare Australian name for a dry bough.
How ROUGHY is used
Used in fishing, cooking and seafood trade; usually seen in the longer name orange roughy.
- The roughy at the counter had scales that felt like fine sandpaper.
- She ordered baked roughy with lemon and herbs.
- A roughy lives in deep water and is rarely seen by divers.
- The market sold one roughy for every two fillets of cod.
- He learned to tell a roughy from a perch by its scales.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ROUGHY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ROUGHY
Common questions about ROUGHY
- Is ROUGHY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ROUGHY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ROUGHY worth?
- ROUGHY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ROUGHY mean?
- A marine fish with a deep, flattened body and rough-edged scales.
- What letters can be added to ROUGHY?
- ROUGHY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ROUGHY:
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