WOMBY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. WOMBY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WOMBY?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WOMBY is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WOMBY
No single letter turns WOMBY into another word.
How WOMBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WOMBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 588,184.
What does WOMBY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicpoetic
Hollow and spacious inside, like a deep cavity or vault.
Womby is a rare literary word most associated with Shakespeare, who used it to describe hollow underground spaces such as vaults or caverns. It draws its image from the womb, suggesting a dark, enclosing hollow rather than an open space. The word survives mainly in quotations and discussions of Elizabethan vocabulary rather than in living use.
How WOMBY is used
Archaic and poetic; encountered almost exclusively in older literary texts and their study.
- The playwright described the womby vaults beneath the old castle.
- A womby cavern stretched deep into the hillside.
- Scholars still quote the line about the womby vaultages of France.
- The cellar felt womby and cold in the lantern light.
- He imagined the ship's hold as a womby, echoing space.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WOMBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in WOMBY
Common questions about WOMBY
- Is WOMBY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WOMBY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WOMBY worth?
- WOMBY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WOMBY mean?
- Hollow and spacious inside, like a deep cavity or vault.
- What letters can be added to WOMBY?
- No single letter can be added to WOMBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WOMBY:
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