UMPTY is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 12 points
Yes for Scrabble. UMPTY is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept UMPTY?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UMPTY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UMPTY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How UMPTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UMPTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 392,122.
What does UMPTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalarchaic
An indefinitely large or unspecified number, used informally in place of an exact count.
Umpty comes from early twentieth century telegraph slang, where operators used iddy for a short Morse dash and umpty for a long one, and umpty was then borrowed into ordinary speech for a vague large quantity. It sits alongside numbers as if it were one itself, as in umpty years or umpty-one people. The later, more familiar word umpteen grew directly out of umpty by analogy with teen numbers such as thirteen.
How UMPTY is used
Informal and now dated, mostly kept alive in the compound umpty-one and in the word umpteen it produced.
- He claimed to have told the same joke umpty times already.
- The form asked for umpty details nobody could remember.
- She joked about her umpty-first attempt at the recipe.
- Old soldiers used umpty the way we now say umpteen.
- The queue stretched back umpty places, or so it felt.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UMPTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of UMPTY
The 5 tiles of UMPTY in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in UMPTY
2 words end in UMPTY. Useful as a back hook: play UMPTY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in UMPTY
Common questions about UMPTY
- Is UMPTY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and UMPTY is not in it.
- How many points is UMPTY worth?
- UMPTY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UMPTY mean?
- An indefinitely large or unspecified number, used informally in place of an exact count.
- What letters can be added to UMPTY?
- UMPTY takes 2 hooks: 2 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UMPTY:
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