SIPPY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. SIPPY 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 12 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept SIPPY?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SIPPY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SIPPY
No single letter turns SIPPY into another word.
How SIPPY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SIPPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What does SIPPY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
North American
Of a child's cup: fitted with a lid that lets liquid through slowly.
The sippy cup is a piece of American parenting vocabulary that travelled with the object itself in the 1980s. The design is a compromise between a bottle and an open cup, and the word is used almost exclusively in front of that one noun.
How SIPPY is used
Before the noun — a sippy cup. Rarely used of anything else.
- The sippy cup went under the seat and stayed there a fortnight.
- A sippy lid saves the carpet and nothing else.
- They moved him off the bottle and onto a sippy cup at one.
- Every sippy cup ever made leaks eventually.
- The word sippy is used in front of cup and almost nowhere else.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SIPPY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SIPPY
Common questions about SIPPY
- Is SIPPY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SIPPY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SIPPY worth?
- SIPPY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SIPPY mean?
- Of a child's cup: fitted with a lid that lets liquid through slowly.
- What letters can be added to SIPPY?
- No single letter can be added to SIPPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SIPPY:
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