BAWTY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. BAWTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BAWTY?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BAWTY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BAWTY
No single letter turns BAWTY into another word.
How BAWTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BAWTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does BAWTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsdialect
A dog, especially a mongrel or shaggy-coated one.
Bawty is an old Scots word for a dog, often used affectionately of an ordinary, shaggy or mixed-breed animal rather than a fine pedigree one. The word appears in traditional Scottish poetry and song, where a bawty is typically a farm or village dog rather than a pampered pet. It has largely dropped out of everyday speech even in Scotland, surviving mainly in older literary and dialect texts. Readers today mostly meet bawty in glossaries attached to older Scots verse rather than in living conversation.
How BAWTY is used
A Scots dialect word for a dog, found mainly in older Scottish poetry and literary sources rather than modern speech.
- The old ballad describes a farmer whistling for his bawty.
- A shaggy bawty trotted at the ploughman's heels.
- The glossary explained that bawty simply meant a dog.
- Their bawty barked at every stranger who passed the gate.
- The poem pictures a bawty curled by the cottage fire.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BAWTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BAWTY
Common questions about BAWTY
- Is BAWTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BAWTY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BAWTY worth?
- BAWTY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BAWTY mean?
- A dog, especially a mongrel or shaggy-coated one.
- What letters can be added to BAWTY?
- No single letter can be added to BAWTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BAWTY:
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