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Is ugly a Scrabble word?

Yes, ugly is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 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 ugly?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (Southern US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.Examples: "an ugly temper; to feel ugly"Southern-US

2. (figuratively, derogatory) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.Examples: "an ugly rumour; an ugly customer; an ugly wound"; "With all this competition, expect things to get ugly."derogatoryfiguratively

noun (English)

1. (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.Examples: "I want your ugly / I want your disease."slanguncountable

2. (slang) An ugly person or thing.countableslanguncountable

3. (logistics, informal) Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.Examples: "These are firstly for products which need a cool room; secondly for products which can be stored on a standard pallet without overhang; and thirdly for products known as "the uglies" which always overhang a standard pallet."; "Non-standard products (abnormal or 'uglies'): many distribution operations are designed to cater for standard palletized products."countableinformaluncountable

4. (UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.Examples: "[…] camp-stools, telescopes, poetry-books, blue uglies, red petticoats, and parasols of every hue."UKcountabledatedinformaluncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).Examples: "I move noiselessly, eat my food carefully without uglying the dining table with its remnants, fold my bedsheets in neat rectangles and place them on the bed in perfect symmetry."; "There is time when the absence of either integrity or humility has uglied the face of the church before the world and turned Christianity into just another cocoon of condemnation and hypocrisy."; "He had spent half of his journey mulling over how he would savour his revenge. He could already envision her pretty little form lying prone at his feet. He would take great pleasure in uglying her up a little before killing her."nonstandardtransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "ugly"?

Scrabble
8 points
U1
G2
L1
Y4
Words With Friends
10 points
U2
G3
L2
Y4

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