BUTTY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BUTTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BUTTY?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUTTY 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 BUTTY
No single letter turns BUTTY into another word.
How BUTTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BUTTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 313,698.
What does BUTTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalBritishregional
A sandwich, especially one filled simply, such as a chip butty or bacon butty; also, among miners, a fellow workman or contract foreman.
Butty is a well-loved regional British word for a sandwich, heard especially in the north of England in phrases such as chip butty and jam butty. Away from the kitchen table, the same word has an older sense from the coal industry, where a butty was a fellow miner, or a contractor who negotiated work between miners and the mine owner.
How BUTTY is used
Chiefly northern British and informal; heard in fixed phrases like chip butty and bacon butty.
- He made himself a bacon butty before heading to work.
- The cafe is famous for its chip butty smothered in gravy.
- Her granddad still calls a jam sandwich a butty.
- The old miners called a trusted workmate their butty.
- She packed a cheese butty for the long train journey.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUTTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BUTTY
2 longer words begin with BUTTY.
Shorter words from the letters in BUTTY
Common questions about BUTTY
- Is BUTTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUTTY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUTTY worth?
- BUTTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUTTY mean?
- A sandwich, especially one filled simply, such as a chip butty or bacon butty; also, among miners, a fellow workman or contract foreman.
- What letters can be added to BUTTY?
- No single letter can be added to BUTTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BUTTY:
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