BROWNY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. BROWNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BROWNY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BROWNY is to know. It scores 14 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BROWNY
No single letter turns BROWNY into another word.
How BROWNY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BROWNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 517,384.
What stands out about BROWNY
- BROWNY 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 BROWNY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Somewhat brown, or tinged with brown.
Browny is a loose, informal way of describing a colour that is not quite a clean brown, such as a dull tan or a muddy shade with brown in it. It is often joined to another colour in compounds like browny grey or browny green. In plain description the word brownish is more common and sounds more formal.
How BROWNY is used
Informal and mostly spoken; usually combined with another colour name.
- The water in the ditch had a browny tint.
- She wore a browny green scarf.
- The leaves turned browny at the edges in October.
- A browny stain spread across the old page.
- The paint dried to a browny shade nobody had expected.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BROWNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BROWNY
Common questions about BROWNY
- Is BROWNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BROWNY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BROWNY worth?
- BROWNY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BROWNY mean?
- Somewhat brown, or tinged with brown.
- What letters can be added to BROWNY?
- No single letter can be added to BROWNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BROWNY:
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