CUTTY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CUTTY 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 CUTTY?
| 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 CUTTY 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 CUTTY
No single letter turns CUTTY into another word.
How CUTTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CUTTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 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 CUTTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scotsdialect
Short, especially describing a garment, spoon, or pipe that has been cut down in length.
Cutty survives mainly in a handful of set phrases from Scots dialect, such as cutty pipe for a short-stemmed tobacco pipe and cutty spoon for a short-handled one. It also appears in older verse describing a cutty garment cut short at the knee or waist, a style once thought scandalously brief.
How CUTTY is used
Now largely historical, encountered mainly in place names, ship names, and quoted dialect verse.
- The old sailor still smoked a cutty pipe on the porch.
- Her grandmother called any short spoon a cutty spoon.
- In the poem, the dancer wears nothing but a cutty shift.
- A cutty jacket barely reached past her waist.
- Scots dialect uses cutty for anything noticeably shortened.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CUTTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CUTTY
Common questions about CUTTY
- Is CUTTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CUTTY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CUTTY worth?
- CUTTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CUTTY mean?
- Short, especially describing a garment, spoon, or pipe that has been cut down in length.
- What letters can be added to CUTTY?
- No single letter can be added to CUTTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CUTTY:
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