ENVOY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ENVOY 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 ENVOY?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENVOY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENVOY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENVOY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ENVOY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does ENVOY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person sent as an official representative or messenger, especially on a diplomatic mission for a government or organization.
An envoy carries messages, negotiates or represents the interests of a government, ruler or organization abroad, ranking below a full ambassador but still holding real diplomatic authority. Governments dispatch envoys when a situation calls for direct, personal representation rather than routine correspondence, such as negotiating a treaty or delivering an urgent message. Outside diplomacy, envoy can describe anyone sent to represent someone else's interests, as when a company sends an envoy to open talks with a rival. In poetry, an envoy also names a short closing stanza that addresses a poem's intended reader, an unrelated but long-established sense of the word.
How ENVOY is used
Common in political and diplomatic writing, and occasionally in literary contexts referring to a poem's closing stanza.
- The president sent a special envoy to negotiate the ceasefire.
- An envoy from the embassy delivered the formal protest.
- The company appointed an envoy to handle talks with the union.
- The poem ends with a short envoy addressed to the reader.
- Two envoys met privately before the summit began.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENVOY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ENVOY
3 longer words begin with ENVOY.
Words ending in ENVOY
2 words end in ENVOY. Useful as a back hook: play ENVOY onto a word already on the board.
Words with ENVOY inside
2 words contain ENVOY in the middle. Words that start with ENVOY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ENVOY
Common questions about ENVOY
- Is ENVOY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENVOY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENVOY worth?
- ENVOY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENVOY mean?
- A person sent as an official representative or messenger, especially on a diplomatic mission for a government or organization.
- What letters can be added to ENVOY?
- ENVOY takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ENVOY:
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