CHRISTY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. CHRISTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CHRISTY?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CHRISTY is to know. It scores 15 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CHRISTY
No single letter turns CHRISTY into another word.
How CHRISTY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in CHRISTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,544 thousand.
What stands out about CHRISTY
- CHRISTY gets by on a single vowel across 7 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CHRISTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A quick skiing turn made with the skis kept parallel, used to change direction or stop sharply.
A christy is usually learned after the basic snowplough turn, and it lets a skier handle steeper and faster slopes. The name is a shortening of Christiania, the old name for Oslo in Norway.
How CHRISTY is used
The word christy belongs to skiing vocabulary, mostly in older instruction books.
- The instructor showed how to link each christy smoothly.
- He ended the run with a neat christy at the lodge.
- A christy is easier on soft snow than on ice.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CHRISTY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CHRISTY
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Common questions about CHRISTY
- Is CHRISTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CHRISTY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CHRISTY worth?
- CHRISTY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CHRISTY mean?
- A quick skiing turn made with the skis kept parallel, used to change direction or stop sharply.
- What letters can be added to CHRISTY?
- No single letter can be added to CHRISTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of CHRISTY:
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