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Is toy a Scrabble word?

Yes, toy is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of toy?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling.Examples: "Then seemed him his Lady by him lay, / And to him playnd, how that false winged boy, / Her chast hart had subdewd, to learne Dame pleasures toy."obsolete

2. (obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim.Examples: "Though they do talk with you, and seem to be otherwise employed, and to your thinking very intent and busy, still that toy runs in their mind, that fear, that suspicion, that abuse, that jealousy […]."; "To fly about playing their wanton toys."; "What if a toy take 'em i'th' heels now, and they all run away."obsolete

3. (obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.Examples: "More strange than true: I never may believe these antique fables, nor these fairy toys."obsolete

4. (Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by elderly women of the lower classes.Examples: "Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid."Synonyms: toy mutchScotlandarchaic

5. (euphemistic) Ellipsis of sex toy.abbreviationalt-ofellipsiseuphemistic

6. (graffiti slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.Examples: "It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces."; "I was a toy until I met Sear, who moved here from Toronto and showed me the book Subway Art."; "DAVE COLUMBO (played by Gabriel Bisset-Smith): So, Rave, you’re a graffiti artist. RAVE: Writer. Graffiti writer. There’s a difference. DAVE COLUMBO: What do you make of “I Came By”(the practice of robbing rich people’s houses and tagging them with the words “I came by”)? RAVE: I think whoever done it is a fucking toy. I heard it’s not the same crew anymore."derogatoryslang

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.Examples: "to toy with a piece of food on one’s plate"; "Figo is toying with the English defence."; "His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To ponder or consider.Examples: "I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business."intransitive

3. (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.Examples: "He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily."slangtransitive

adj (English)

1. (chiefly attributive) Impractical or unsuitable for real-world use, due to being unrealistically small or simple.Examples: "Our evaluation scenarios are purposefully simplistic […] This implies that the scenarios are quite toy and not representative of real deployments."attributive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "toy"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "toy"?

Scrabble
6 points
T1
O1
Y4
Words With Friends
5 points
T1
O1
Y4

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