ANY is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ANY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANY?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANY is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ANY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ANY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,497.
What does ANY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
One or some, no matter which.
Any behaves differently in questions, in negatives and in plain statements, and the rules run so deep that no native speaker can state them: have you any, I have not any, any of them will do. Learners are taught a simplification which works most of the time and fails visibly when it does not.
How ANY is used
Determiner and pronoun alike.
- Take any one of them, they are all the same.
- Is there any left?
- He has not any idea what happened.
- Any of those would do the job.
- The rules for any are known and cannot be stated.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ANY
The 3 tiles of ANY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ANY
22 longer words begin with ANY.
Words ending in ANY
Showing 24 of 43 words that end in ANY. Useful as a back hook: play ANY onto a word already on the board.
Words with ANY inside
Showing 24 of 53 words that contain ANY somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ANY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ANY
Common questions about ANY
- Is ANY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANY, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANY worth?
- ANY is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANY mean?
- One or some, no matter which.
- What letters can be added to ANY?
- ANY takes 4 hooks: 4 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ANY:
Open ANY in the Word Finder