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Is ploy a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ploy is a Scrabble US word. The word ploy is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is ploy a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ploy is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

P3L1O1Y4

Is ploy a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word ploy is a Words With Friends word. The word ploy is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

PLOY,POLY,

3-letter words (4 found)

LOP,LOY,PLY,POL,

2-letter words (5 found)

LO,OP,OY,PO,YO,

You can make 11 words from ploy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ploy

ploy lpoy poly oply lopy olpy plyo lpyo pylo yplo lypo ylpo poyl opyl pyol ypol oypl yopl loyp olyp lyop ylop oylp yolp

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word ploy. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in ploy.

Definitions and meaning of ploy

ploy

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plɔɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Etymology 1

Possibly from a shortened form of employ or deploy. Or from earlier ploye, from Middle English, borrowed from Middle French ployer (compare modern plier), from Latin plicāre.

Noun

ploy (countable and uncountable, plural ploys)

  1. A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
    Near-synonyms: ruse, stratagem
  2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
  3. (obsolete) Employment.
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Etymology 2

Probably abbreviated from deploy.

Verb

ploy (third-person singular simple present ploys, present participle ploying, simple past and past participle ployed)

  1. (military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
Antonyms
  • deploy

References

“ploy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • -poly, poly, poly-

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Verb

ploy

  1. Alternative spelling of ploi

Source: wiktionary.org