ATAXY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. ATAXY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ATAXY?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ATAXY is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ATAXY
No single letter turns ATAXY into another word.
How ATAXY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ATAXY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| x | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does ATAXY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicmedical
Loss of the ability to coordinate voluntary muscular movements, an older spelling of ataxia.
Ataxy describes a failure of the nervous system to coordinate muscles smoothly, so that walking, reaching or speaking becomes unsteady. Nineteenth-century medical writing used ataxy where modern texts write ataxia, and the two spellings refer to the same underlying condition. The word survives today mainly in older books and in word lists rather than in everyday clinical speech.
How ATAXY is used
Chiefly historical; modern medical writing prefers the spelling ataxia, and ataxy is met almost only in older texts.
- The old physician diagnosed the tremor as a form of ataxy.
- Locomotor ataxy was a common term in nineteenth-century medical journals.
- His unsteady gait was recorded in the notes as ataxy.
- Modern doctors would call her ataxy by its current name, ataxia.
- The textbook lists ataxy as an archaic term for loss of muscular coordination.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ATAXY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ATAXY
Common questions about ATAXY
- Is ATAXY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ATAXY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ATAXY worth?
- ATAXY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ATAXY mean?
- Loss of the ability to coordinate voluntary muscular movements, an older spelling of ataxia.
- What letters can be added to ATAXY?
- No single letter can be added to ATAXY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ATAXY:
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