BUSKY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. BUSKY 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept BUSKY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUSKY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 2.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUSKY
No single letter turns BUSKY into another word.
How BUSKY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BUSKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,176 thousand.
What does BUSKY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicdialect
Covered with bushes or thick shrubby growth, an old variant form of bosky.
A busky bank or hillside is thick with low bushes and tangled shrubs rather than open grass. Writers used the word as a close relative of bosky to give a scene a wild, overgrown feel, and it turns up in Shakespeare's time with that exact sense of bushy ground. It appears rarely now, mostly in older descriptive writing about woodland or countryside.
How BUSKY is used
Old-fashioned descriptive word for shrubby land, rarely used outside older texts.
- The busky riverbank hid the path from view.
- Sheep grazed near the busky slope above the farm.
- A busky hedge separated the two fields.
- The map marked the busky ground as difficult to cross.
- Birds nested deep in the busky thicket.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUSKY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BUSKY
Common questions about BUSKY
- Is BUSKY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and BUSKY is not in it.
- How many points is BUSKY worth?
- BUSKY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUSKY mean?
- Covered with bushes or thick shrubby growth, an old variant form of bosky.
- What letters can be added to BUSKY?
- No single letter can be added to BUSKY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BUSKY:
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