BUNTY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. BUNTY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BUNTY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUNTY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUNTY
No single letter turns BUNTY into another word.
How BUNTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BUNTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does BUNTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botany
Affected by bunt, a fungal disease of wheat that blackens and spoils the grain.
Bunty describes wheat infected with bunt, a fungus that replaces the inside of each grain with a mass of dark, foul-smelling spores. A bunty crop looks normal in the field until harvest, when the spoiled grain crushes into a black powder and taints the whole batch with its smell. Farmers and millers used the word to flag grain unfit for flour, before modern seed treatments made the disease far less common.
How BUNTY is used
Botany; specialist agricultural usage, now rare given modern disease control.
- The inspector rejected the load as bunty grain.
- A bunty ear of wheat crumbles into black dust when crushed.
- Farmers once lost whole fields to bunty wheat.
- The miller could smell bunty grain before he saw it.
- Seed treatment has made bunty crops much less common today.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUNTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BUNTY
Common questions about BUNTY
- Is BUNTY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BUNTY is not in it.
- How many points is BUNTY worth?
- BUNTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUNTY mean?
- Affected by bunt, a fungal disease of wheat that blackens and spoils the grain.
- What letters can be added to BUNTY?
- No single letter can be added to BUNTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BUNTY:
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