The word buoy is a valid scrabble word

3 short excerpts of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other Wiktionnaries.)

  • buoy n. (Nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel…
  • buoy n. A life-buoy; a life preserver.
  • buoy v. (Transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.

25 valid words from 3 definitions

AFLOAT ALOFT BUOY CHANNEL DANGER FLOAT IN INDICATE KEEP LIFE LOCATION MARK MOORED NAUTICAL NAVIGATIONAL OF OR PRESERVER TO TRANSITIVE UP USED WARN WATER WITH

One word in word (Word found as is inside the word.)

OY

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word.)

OU YO YOU

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

BURY BUSY

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

BOY BUY

13 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

BUOYS BUOYED BUOYAGE BUOYANT BUOYING BUOYAGES BUOYANCE BUOYANCY BUOYANCES BUOYANTLY BUOYANCIES BUOYANTNESS BUOYANTNESSES

5 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

BELLBUOYS LIFEBUOYS SONOBUOYS UPBUOYANCE UPBUOYANCES

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

BELLBUOY LIFEBUOY SONOBUOY

5 anagrams plus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word plus a letter.)

+A BAYOU BOYAU
+S BOUSY BUOYS
+T OUTBY

4 anagrams minus one (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

-B YOU
-O BUY
-U BOY YOB

Scrabble scoring

  • 9 points.

Probability in scrabble (Probability to draw 7 letters at the beginning of the game to build the word.)

  • Joker allowed, 1 in 199 chance (0.50%).
  • Joker not allowed, 1 in 875 chance (0.11%).

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  • No anagrams (Word found by changing the order of the letters.)
  • No epentheses (Word found when adding only one letter.)

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.

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