ATIMY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. ATIMY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ATIMY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ATIMY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ATIMY
No single letter turns ATIMY into another word.
How ATIMY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ATIMY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What does ATIMY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
Disgrace or loss of honour and standing, especially as a punishment.
Atimy comes from a Greek root meaning dishonour, and English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries borrowed it to describe a fall from public esteem rather than a private shame. Edmund Spenser used the word in this sense, and it never became common outside poetry and moral writing of that period.
How ATIMY is used
Found almost only in older poetry and in discussions of that poetry; a modern writer would say disgrace instead.
- The knight feared atimy far more than death in battle.
- Spenser used atimy where a later poet would simply write shame.
- Losing his title brought him public atimy.
- The old verse links atimy with the loss of a good name.
- Critics gloss atimy as an old word for dishonour.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ATIMY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ATIMY
The 5 tiles of ATIMY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in ATIMY
Common questions about ATIMY
- Is ATIMY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ATIMY is not in it.
- How many points is ATIMY worth?
- ATIMY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ATIMY mean?
- Disgrace or loss of honour and standing, especially as a punishment.
- What letters can be added to ATIMY?
- No single letter can be added to ATIMY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ATIMY:
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