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DINGY

5 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What DINGY Means

  1. adjective: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot“a miner's begrimed face”
  2. adjective: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination“a dirty (or dingy) white”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DINGY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 I1 N1 G2 Y4.

Anagrams of DINGY (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In DINGY

14 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 (8)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing DINGY

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

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