CAVY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CAVY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CAVY?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAVY is to know. It scores 12 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAVY
No single letter turns CAVY into another word.
How CAVY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CAVY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 54,461.
What does CAVY mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A South American rodent; a guinea pig.
Cavy is the proper name for the animal sold as a guinea pig, which is neither a pig nor from Guinea. How that wrong name stuck is not known, and both halves of it are wrong.
How CAVY is used
Countable; the plural is formed regularly.
- A cavy is what a zoologist calls a guinea pig.
- The word cavy came into English through Latin from Galibi.
- A wild cavy lives in a burrow and a tame one does not.
- Neither half of the name guinea pig is accurate, and cavy is.
- A second cavy in the same hutch is company rather than competition.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAVY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CAVY
Common questions about CAVY
- Is CAVY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAVY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAVY worth?
- CAVY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAVY mean?
- A South American rodent; a guinea pig.
- What letters can be added to CAVY?
- No single letter can be added to CAVY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CAVY:
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