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DUMMY

5 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What DUMMY Means

  1. noun: a person who does not talk
  2. noun: an ignorant or foolish person
  3. verb: make a dummy of“dummy up the books that are to be published”
  4. 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

DUMMY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 U1 M3 M3 Y4.

Words Made From The Letters In DUMMY

9 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.

3 letter words (4)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing DUMMY

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

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