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JIMMY

5 letters, 19 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What JIMMY Means

  1. noun: a short crowbar“in Britain they call a jimmy a ‘jemmy’.”
  2. verb: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open“The burglar jimmied the lock”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

JIMMY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 I1 M3 M3 Y4.

Words Made From The Letters In JIMMY

5 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 (1)

2 letter words (3)

Longer Words Containing JIMMY

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

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