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BOOBY

5 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BOOBY Means

  1. noun: an ignorant or foolish person
  2. noun: small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BOOBY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 O1 B3 Y4.

Anagrams of BOOBY (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In BOOBY

12 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

4 letter words (1)

3 letter words (5)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing BOOBY

BOOBY appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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