CANDY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CANDY 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 CANDY?
| 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 CANDY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANDY
No single letter turns CANDY into another word.
How CANDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CANDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does CANDY mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A sweet food made mainly from sugar, often flavoured, coloured or combined with chocolate, fruit or nuts; a general North American word for confectionery.
Candy is the everyday North American term for sweets of almost any kind, from hard boiled sweets and chocolate bars to soft chewy treats sold individually or by weight. British speakers usually say sweets for the same general category, reserving candy mainly for specific items such as candy floss. The word can also work as a verb, meaning to coat or preserve something in sugar, as when fruit is prepared this way rather than eaten fresh. Across its uses, candy always centres on sugar as the defining ingredient.
How CANDY is used
Extremely common in North American English for sweets generally, and used worldwide for specific sugar-based treats and the verb sense of coating in sugar.
- The children traded candy from their trick-or-treat bags.
- A jar of striped candy sat on the shop counter.
- She sprinkled crushed candy over the frosting.
- He bought a bag of candy at the cinema.
- The recipe called for melted candy stirred into the batter.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CANDY
The 5 tiles of CANDY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CANDY
9 longer words begin with CANDY.
Words ending in CANDY
1 words end in CANDY. Useful as a back hook: play CANDY onto a word already on the board.
Words with CANDY inside
2 words contain CANDY in the middle. Words that start with CANDY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CANDY
Common questions about CANDY
- Is CANDY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANDY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANDY worth?
- CANDY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANDY mean?
- A sweet food made mainly from sugar, often flavoured, coloured or combined with chocolate, fruit or nuts; a general North American word for confectionery.
- What letters can be added to CANDY?
- No single letter can be added to CANDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CANDY:
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