SUBBY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. SUBBY 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 not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SUBBY?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SUBBY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUBBY
No single letter turns SUBBY into another word.
How SUBBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SUBBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,353 thousand.
What does SUBBY mean in Scrabble?
noun
AustralianBritishinformal
A subcontractor, especially one hired for one trade on a building site, in informal usage.
A subby is brought onto a job by the main contractor to handle one part of the work, such as wiring or plumbing, rather than running the whole site. Building sites in Australia and Britain use the word constantly in casual talk, where the full term subcontractor would sound oddly formal for the setting. It simply takes sub and adds the same friendly -y ending found in other trade nicknames.
How SUBBY is used
Informal; common in everyday talk on building sites in Australia and Britain.
- The builder called in a subby to finish the tiling by Friday.
- One subby was arguing with another over whose job it was to fix the leak.
- She works as a subby on jobs across three different sites this month.
- Paying a subby late is a quick way to lose a good worker.
- The site manager keeps a list of every reliable subby for electrical work.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUBBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SUBBY
The 5 tiles of SUBBY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SUBBY
Common questions about SUBBY
- Is SUBBY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SUBBY is not in it.
- How many points is SUBBY worth?
- SUBBY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUBBY mean?
- A subcontractor, especially one hired for one trade on a building site, in informal usage.
- What letters can be added to SUBBY?
- No single letter can be added to SUBBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SUBBY:
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