ABY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ABY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ABY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABY is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ABY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ABY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does ABY mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To pay the penalty for something.
Aby is Shakespeare's word: it appears in the plays and almost nowhere afterwards, in the construction about abying something dear. It left no modern descendant, and the verbs that replaced it — atone, answer for — carry the sense without the threat that used to come with it.
How ABY is used
Transitive: aby it dearly. Archaic.
- Thou shalt aby it dear, says the line.
- He will aby that remark before the week is out.
- The word aby appears in the plays and then vanishes.
- To aby something is to pay for it rather than regret it.
- Nobody has used aby in earnest for four hundred years.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ABY
The 3 tiles of ABY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ABY
13 longer words begin with ABY.
Words ending in ABY
12 words end in ABY. Useful as a back hook: play ABY onto a word already on the board.
Words with ABY inside
Showing 24 of 62 words that contain ABY somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ABY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ABY
Common questions about ABY
- Is ABY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ABY, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ABY worth?
- ABY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABY mean?
- To pay the penalty for something.
- What letters can be added to ABY?
- ABY takes 4 hooks: 2 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ABY:
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