BOTHY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. BOTHY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOTHY?
| 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 BOTHY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOTHY
No single letter turns BOTHY into another word.
How BOTHY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOTHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does BOTHY mean in Scrabble?
noun
ScotsBritish
A small hut or simple cottage, especially in the Scottish Highlands, used as basic shelter for farm workers, shepherds, or walkers.
A bothy is usually a stone building with little more than a roof, walls, and perhaps a fireplace, left unlocked for travellers to shelter in overnight. Hillwalkers in Scotland rely on a network of such bothies maintained by volunteers, and using one comes with an informal code of leaving it clean and stocked for the next visitor. Historically, a bothy also referred to housing provided on a farm for unmarried farm labourers, who lived and ate together in the building. The word is Scots in origin and is still used mainly in Scottish and northern British English.
How BOTHY is used
Chiefly Scottish and northern British; common among hillwalkers and in rural farming vocabulary.
- They spent the night in a remote bothy high on the hillside.
- The old farm bothy once housed the seasonal labourers.
- A fire was already laid in the bothy grate when they arrived.
- Walkers left dry firewood in the bothy for the next group.
- The bothy had no electricity, only a single small window.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOTHY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOTHY
2 longer words begin with BOTHY.
Shorter words from the letters in BOTHY
Common questions about BOTHY
- Is BOTHY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOTHY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOTHY worth?
- BOTHY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOTHY mean?
- A small hut or simple cottage, especially in the Scottish Highlands, used as basic shelter for farm workers, shepherds, or walkers.
- What letters can be added to BOTHY?
- No single letter can be added to BOTHY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOTHY:
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