What DUMMIES Means
DUMMIES is a form of DUMMY, which means:
- noun: a person who does not talk
- noun: an ignorant or foolish person
- verb: make a dummy of“dummy up the books that are to be published”
- adjective: having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function“a dummy corporation”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DUMMIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 U1 M3 M3 I1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of DUMMIES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DUMMIES
83 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.
6 letter words (3)
5 letter words (9)
4 letter words (24)
3 letter words (33)
2 letter words (14)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.