What DOWDY Means
- adjective: lacking in smartness or taste“a dowdy grey outfit”
- adjective: primly out of date“nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game”
- noun: deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DOWDY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 O1 W4 D2 Y4.
Words Made From The Letters In DOWDY
13 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 (6)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing DOWDY
DOWDY appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.