ABSEY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. ABSEY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ABSEY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABSEY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABSEY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
abseysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABSEY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ABSEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What stands out about ABSEY
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ABSEY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaichistorical
The alphabet, especially as taught to children from a primer.
Absey comes from saying the first letters aloud, a, b, c, run together into one word, the same idea behind the modern spelling ABC. An absey book, mentioned in older writing, was a child's primer used to learn the alphabet before moving on to reading whole words, and the term faded once the plainer spelling ABC took over completely.
How ABSEY is used
Archaic and historical; found in older texts about early schooling rather than in current use.
- The child learned her absey from a worn little primer.
- An absey book sat on the shelf beside the family Bible.
- The tutor drilled the boy on his absey every morning.
- The play mocks a nobleman who never got past his absey.
- Historians describe how the absey was taught before formal schools existed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABSEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ABSEY
The 5 tiles of ABSEY in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ABSEY
1 longer words begin with ABSEY.
Shorter words from the letters in ABSEY
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Common questions about ABSEY
- Is ABSEY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ABSEY is not in it.
- How many points is ABSEY worth?
- ABSEY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABSEY mean?
- The alphabet, especially as taught to children from a primer.
- What letters can be added to ABSEY?
- ABSEY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ABSEY:
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