YOBBY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. YOBBY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YOBBY?
| 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 YOBBY 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 YOBBY
No single letter turns YOBBY into another word.
How YOBBY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in YOBBY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 2 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,411 thousand.
What stands out about YOBBY
- YOBBY begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does YOBBY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Britishinformal
Behaving like a yob; loutish, rowdy or aggressively unruly, especially among young men.
Yobby describes the coarse, disruptive behaviour associated with a yob, a British term for a rude and often aggressive young man. It is typically applied to loud, drunken or destructive conduct in public, such as at football matches or on late-night streets. The word carries clear disapproval and is almost always used critically rather than neutrally.
How YOBBY is used
British informal usage, generally critical in tone and rarely applied to formal or polite behaviour.
- The pub emptied into a yobby crowd shouting on the pavement.
- Police were called to deal with yobby behaviour outside the stadium.
- She complained about the yobby teenagers kicking bins down the street.
- His yobby manner embarrassed the rest of the family.
- The town council blamed yobby vandalism for the broken benches.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YOBBY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in YOBBY
Common questions about YOBBY
- Is YOBBY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YOBBY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YOBBY worth?
- YOBBY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YOBBY mean?
- Behaving like a yob; loutish, rowdy or aggressively unruly, especially among young men.
- What letters can be added to YOBBY?
- No single letter can be added to YOBBY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of YOBBY:
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