Definitions For Decoy

noun

  • Something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
  • A beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
  • A wooden or plastic bird (such as a duck) that is used by hunters to attract live birds
  • A person or thing that attracts people's attention so they will not notice someone or something else

verb

  • Lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy

Is Decoy a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
11
Words with Friends
11

The word Decoy is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Decoy in a Sentence

  • He had a decoy distract the guard while he jumped over the fence.
  • We set the decoy afloat in the marsh and from the blind waited for the ducks to arrive
  • Tacky souvenir shops to which first-time tourists had been decoyed into spending their hard-earned money

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