AYU is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. AYU 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AYU?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AYU is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AYU
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ayusChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AYU scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in AYU, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does AYU mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A small, slender freshwater and coastal fish native to Japan and eaten as a delicacy.
The ayu, sometimes called the sweetfish, lives for only about a year, migrating from the sea into rivers to spawn. It is prized in Japanese cooking for its delicate, faintly melon-like flavour.
How AYU is used
Chiefly used in writing about Japanese cuisine or ichthyology; unfamiliar in ordinary English conversation.
- The restaurant grilled a whole ayu over charcoal and served it with salt.
- Anglers wait each summer for the ayu to run upstream.
- She had never tasted ayu before her trip to Kyoto.
- The market stall displayed rows of silvery ayu on ice.
- A single ayu rarely lives past its first year.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AYU and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AYU
7 longer words begin with AYU.
Words with AYU inside
11 words contain AYU in the middle. Words that start with AYU are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AYU
Common questions about AYU
- Is AYU valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AYU is not in it.
- How many points is AYU worth?
- AYU is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AYU mean?
- A small, slender freshwater and coastal fish native to Japan and eaten as a delicacy.
- What letters can be added to AYU?
- AYU takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of AYU:
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