ABYSS is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ABYSS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ABYSS?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ABYSS is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ABYSS
No single letter turns ABYSS into another word.
How ABYSS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ABYSS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does ABYSS mean in Scrabble?
noun
A very deep, seemingly bottomless chasm or pit.
Abyss comes from a Greek word meaning without a bottom, and it kept that literal sense for the deepest parts of the ocean long before it acquired a figurative one. Writers now reach for abyss when a gap, a loss or a crisis feels too vast and dark to measure, which is a stronger claim than a plain gulf or chasm would make.
How ABYSS is used
Used both literally for ocean depths and figuratively for a hopeless or overwhelming situation.
- The submersible descended into a black abyss no light had ever reached.
- After the company collapsed, the family stared into a financial abyss.
- The myth describes the world rising out of a formless abyss.
- Standing at the cliff edge, she felt the pull of the abyss below.
- Grief can open into an abyss that swallows every ordinary plan.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ABYSS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ABYSS
The 5 tiles of ABYSS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ABYSS
3 longer words begin with ABYSS.
Words with ABYSS inside
2 words contain ABYSS in the middle. Words that start with ABYSS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ABYSS
Common questions about ABYSS
- Is ABYSS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ABYSS, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ABYSS worth?
- ABYSS is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ABYSS mean?
- A very deep, seemingly bottomless chasm or pit.
- What letters can be added to ABYSS?
- No single letter can be added to ABYSS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ABYSS:
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