SCAMMONY is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. SCAMMONY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SCAMMONY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SCAMMONY is to know. It scores 17 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SCAMMONY
No single letter turns SCAMMONY into another word.
How SCAMMONY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in SCAMMONY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SCAMMONY has to be built on the board across turns.
What does SCAMMONY mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanymedicalarchaic
A twining plant of the bindweed family whose dried root yields a strong purgative resin.
Scammony grows in the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor, and the resin from its root was once a standard laxative. Modern medicine has dropped it, so the word now lives mostly in old herbals and dictionaries.
How SCAMMONY is used
Scammony is a rare word for the plant or its resin, found in old medical and herbal texts.
- The apothecary kept a jar of scammony on the top shelf.
- Scammony was prized as a powerful purge in old medicine.
- The herbal described scammony as a climbing plant with pale flowers.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SCAMMONY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SCAMMONY
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Common questions about SCAMMONY
- Is SCAMMONY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SCAMMONY, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SCAMMONY worth?
- SCAMMONY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SCAMMONY mean?
- A twining plant of the bindweed family whose dried root yields a strong purgative resin.
- What letters can be added to SCAMMONY?
- No single letter can be added to SCAMMONY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of SCAMMONY:
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