BURSTY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. BURSTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BURSTY?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BURSTY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BURSTY
No single letter turns BURSTY into another word.
How BURSTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BURSTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 517,384.
What stands out about BURSTY
- BURSTY 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 BURSTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Happening in short, sudden spurts with quiet stretches in between, rather than at a steady rate.
Bursty is a modern word, most often used about data traffic, noise or activity that arrives in clumps instead of a smooth flow. A network link that carries nothing for seconds and then floods with packets is called bursty, and so is a writer whose output comes in sudden rushes. Engineers care about the pattern because systems built for an average load may fail when the peaks arrive together.
How BURSTY is used
Technical in networking and statistics, informal elsewhere.
- Web traffic is bursty, with long lulls and sudden rushes.
- The rain was bursty, falling hard for a minute and then stopping.
- His bursty energy made scheduling difficult for the team.
- A bursty signal needs a larger buffer than a steady one.
- Sales came in a bursty pattern around the holidays.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BURSTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BURSTY
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Common questions about BURSTY
- Is BURSTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BURSTY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BURSTY worth?
- BURSTY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BURSTY mean?
- Happening in short, sudden spurts with quiet stretches in between, rather than at a steady rate.
- What letters can be added to BURSTY?
- No single letter can be added to BURSTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BURSTY:
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