TOMMY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. TOMMY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TOMMY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TOMMY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TOMMY
No single letter turns TOMMY into another word.
How TOMMY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TOMMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 784,245.
What does TOMMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritishhistorical
An informal British term for an ordinary soldier in the British Army, especially one serving in the First World War.
The nickname comes from Tommy Atkins, a sample name once printed in official army paperwork as an example of how a soldier should fill in his own details, and the shortened form tommy stuck as an affectionate way of referring to the ordinary infantryman rather than to officers. Wartime newspapers, songs, and letters home used tommy constantly, and the word came to stand for the ordinary experience of the front line rather than for any single soldier. It carries a tone of familiarity and sympathy rather than formality, closer to calling someone a private soldier by a nickname than by rank. The word is still used today in books and films set during the First World War.
How TOMMY is used
Informal and historical, chiefly British, used especially in accounts of the First World War.
- The film follows a young tommy through his first weeks in the trenches.
- Letters from a tommy to his family described the mud and cold.
- He was remembered simply as an old tommy from the regiment.
- The museum exhibit honours the ordinary tommy of the war.
- Every tommy in the unit carried the same standard kit.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TOMMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TOMMY
5 longer words begin with TOMMY.
Shorter words from the letters in TOMMY
Common questions about TOMMY
- Is TOMMY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TOMMY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TOMMY worth?
- TOMMY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TOMMY mean?
- An informal British term for an ordinary soldier in the British Army, especially one serving in the First World War.
- What letters can be added to TOMMY?
- No single letter can be added to TOMMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TOMMY:
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