TRIPY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. TRIPY 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 TRIPY?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRIPY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRIPY
Front hooks — 1
stripyBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How TRIPY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TRIPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does TRIPY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalBritish
Resembling tripe in texture or quality, or, more loosely, worthless and of poor quality.
Tripy grew out of tripe, the rubbery lining of a cow's stomach eaten as food, and first described anything with that same pale, flabby texture. Because tripe was long seen as cheap and unappealing, the word tripe itself became slang for nonsense or rubbish, and tripy followed the same path to mean shoddy or worthless. It can describe writing, entertainment or an object, not only food, wherever the speaker wants to dismiss it as poor stuff. It is heard far more often in Britain than elsewhere and always carries a slightly dismissive tone.
How TRIPY is used
Informal, chiefly British; used to dismiss something as poor quality rather than to describe actual tripe.
- The critic called the film tripy from start to finish.
- That is a tripy excuse and everyone knows it.
- The stew had gone tripy after too long on the stove.
- He dismissed the whole script as tripy nonsense.
- Reviewers thought the sequel far more tripy than the original.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRIPY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in TRIPY
1 words end in TRIPY. Useful as a back hook: play TRIPY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in TRIPY
Common questions about TRIPY
- Is TRIPY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TRIPY is not in it.
- How many points is TRIPY worth?
- TRIPY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRIPY mean?
- Resembling tripe in texture or quality, or, more loosely, worthless and of poor quality.
- What letters can be added to TRIPY?
- TRIPY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TRIPY:
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