TIDDY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. TIDDY 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TIDDY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TIDDY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TIDDY
No single letter turns TIDDY into another word.
How TIDDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TIDDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does TIDDY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Very small; tiny, especially something undersized or dainty.
Tiddy is an English dialect word for anything unusually small, heard particularly in the Midlands and the north, where a tiddy potato is one too small to bother peeling on its own. It carries an affectionate or diminutive tone rather than a purely technical one, closer to wee than to the plain word small. Speakers often reach for it about food, animals or children rather than abstract measurements. It is heard in speech far more often than it is written down.
How TIDDY is used
Regional dialect, chiefly British; often placed before a noun, as in a tiddy one.
- They boiled the tiddy potatoes whole with their skins on.
- A tiddy kitten was curled up on the doorstep.
- He cut himself a tiddy slice, barely worth the plate.
- Grandad still calls the smallest lamb the tiddy one.
- That is a tiddy portion for a grown man.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TIDDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TIDDY
Common questions about TIDDY
- Is TIDDY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TIDDY is not in it.
- How many points is TIDDY worth?
- TIDDY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TIDDY mean?
- Very small; tiny, especially something undersized or dainty.
- What letters can be added to TIDDY?
- No single letter can be added to TIDDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TIDDY:
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