ANNOY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ANNOY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANNOY?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANNOY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANNOY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANNOY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ANNOY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 34,855.
What stands out about ANNOY
- The letters of ANNOY run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ANNOY mean in Scrabble?
verb
To make someone feel slightly angry or impatient by repeated or persistent behavior.
Annoy sits toward the milder end of English words for anger, well short of enrage or infuriate, and it usually describes irritation caused by something small but repeated, like a dripping faucet or a nagging question. The verb can describe both people, as in the noise annoyed the neighbors, and the feeling itself, since someone can simply be annoyed without anyone doing anything on purpose. Annoy comes ultimately from a Latin phrase meaning to be hateful, though the modern word has softened considerably from that harsher origin. Its noun form, annoyance, is used just as often to name the feeling or the thing that causes it.
How ANNOY is used
Very common in everyday speech, usually describing mild, persistent irritation rather than serious anger.
- The constant buzzing of the fly began to annoy him.
- She didn't mean to annoy her sister with the question.
- Loud construction noise annoyed the whole neighborhood.
- It annoys me when people talk during a film.
- His habit of interrupting annoys almost everyone in the meeting.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANNOY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ANNOY
The 5 tiles of ANNOY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ANNOY
8 longer words begin with ANNOY.
Words ending in ANNOY
1 words end in ANNOY. Useful as a back hook: play ANNOY onto a word already on the board.
Words with ANNOY inside
4 words contain ANNOY in the middle. Words that start with ANNOY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ANNOY
Common questions about ANNOY
- Is ANNOY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANNOY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANNOY worth?
- ANNOY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANNOY mean?
- To make someone feel slightly angry or impatient by repeated or persistent behavior.
- What letters can be added to ANNOY?
- ANNOY takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ANNOY:
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