SHOOFLY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. SHOOFLY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHOOFLY?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHOOFLY is to know. It scores 16 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHOOFLY
No single letter turns SHOOFLY into another word.
How SHOOFLY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in SHOOFLY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,466 thousand.
What does SHOOFLY mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A child's rocking seat shaped like an animal, or a sweet molasses pie.
The shoofly in the toy sense is a rocker with painted animal-shaped sides. In American cooking the same word names a Pennsylvania Dutch pie, and in old police slang it meant an undercover officer.
How SHOOFLY is used
Shoofly is used in American speech about toys, pies and sometimes slang.
- The toddler rocked happily on a wooden shoofly.
- Grandma baked a shoofly with dark molasses.
- A shoofly stood in the corner of the playroom.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHOOFLY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SHOOFLY
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Common questions about SHOOFLY
- Is SHOOFLY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHOOFLY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHOOFLY worth?
- SHOOFLY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHOOFLY mean?
- A child's rocking seat shaped like an animal, or a sweet molasses pie.
- What letters can be added to SHOOFLY?
- No single letter can be added to SHOOFLY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of SHOOFLY:
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