BOLSHY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. BOLSHY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOLSHY?
| 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 BOLSHY is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOLSHY
No single letter turns BOLSHY into another word.
How BOLSHY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BOLSHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,164 thousand.
What stands out about BOLSHY
- BOLSHY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does BOLSHY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Britishinformal
Deliberately awkward, argumentative or uncooperative, especially toward authority.
Bolshy is a shortened, everyday offshoot of the word for a Russian revolutionary, and in British speech it lost most of its political meaning. Today it describes a stubborn mood or a person who digs in and refuses to be told what to do. The spelling bolshie is the same word.
How BOLSHY is used
British informal; describes attitude or behaviour rather than political belief.
- The cat turned bolshy the moment we tried to put her in the carrier.
- Staff got bolshy when the new rota was pinned to the wall.
- He was in a bolshy mood and answered every question with a shrug.
- Teenagers can be wonderfully bolshy about bedtimes.
- A bolshy neighbour refused to move his van.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOLSHY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BOLSHY
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Common questions about BOLSHY
- Is BOLSHY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOLSHY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOLSHY worth?
- BOLSHY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOLSHY mean?
- Deliberately awkward, argumentative or uncooperative, especially toward authority.
- What letters can be added to BOLSHY?
- No single letter can be added to BOLSHY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BOLSHY:
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