BATTY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BATTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BATTY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BATTY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BATTY
No single letter turns BATTY into another word.
How BATTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BATTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 139,421.
What does BATTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Mentally unbalanced, eccentric, or slightly crazy; behaving in an odd or irrational way.
Batty describes a person or an idea that seems eccentric, foolish, or slightly unhinged, often in a way that is more amusing than alarming. Someone might call an elderly relative's conspiracy theories batty, or dismiss a batty scheme as too impractical to take seriously. The word likely comes from the phrase having bats in the belfry, an old image comparing a confused mind to a bell tower full of fluttering bats. Unlike stronger words for mental illness, batty stays light and informal, closer to calling someone charmingly odd than genuinely disturbed.
How BATTY is used
Batty is informal and mildly dismissive, used for people or ideas that seem eccentric or slightly crazy rather than seriously troubled.
- His batty aunt kept dozens of cats in her tiny apartment.
- The plan sounded batty, but it somehow worked.
- She gave him a batty grin and changed the subject entirely.
- Critics called the theory batty when it was first proposed.
- Only a batty old professor would try such an experiment.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BATTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BATTY
Common questions about BATTY
- Is BATTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BATTY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BATTY worth?
- BATTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BATTY mean?
- Mentally unbalanced, eccentric, or slightly crazy; behaving in an odd or irrational way.
- What letters can be added to BATTY?
- No single letter can be added to BATTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BATTY:
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