CURTESY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CURTESY 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 CURTESY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CURTESY is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CURTESY
No single letter turns CURTESY into another word.
How CURTESY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in CURTESY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 578,977.
What does CURTESY mean in Scrabble?
noun
legal
In old common law, a widower's right to hold his late wife's land for life when they had a child born alive.
Curtesy was the husband's counterpart to dower, the share a widow received from her husband's estate. It depended on the birth of a child, and most legal systems have since abolished it.
How CURTESY is used
A historical legal term, met mostly in property law texts and older cases.
- Under curtesy he kept the estate for the rest of his life.
- Students of property law still study curtesy as a historical rule.
- The statute abolished curtesy and dower alike.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CURTESY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CURTESY
The 7 tiles of CURTESY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in CURTESY
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Common questions about CURTESY
- Is CURTESY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CURTESY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CURTESY worth?
- CURTESY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CURTESY mean?
- In old common law, a widower's right to hold his late wife's land for life when they had a child born alive.
- What letters can be added to CURTESY?
- No single letter can be added to CURTESY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of CURTESY:
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