FAFFY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 17 points
It depends on the list you play by. FAFFY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 17 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FAFFY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FAFFY is to know. It scores 17 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FAFFY
No single letter turns FAFFY into another word.
How FAFFY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FAFFY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 3 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. FAFFY needs 1 blank tile.
What does FAFFY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalBritish
Awkward, fiddly and more time-consuming than it should be.
Faffy describes a task that drags on with small, fussy steps rather than being straightforward, related to the verb faff, meaning to waste time on ineffective activity. British speakers often reach for the word when a job looks simple but turns out to involve annoying extra effort.
How FAFFY is used
Informal British speech; not normally used in formal writing.
- Assembling the flat-pack shelf turned out to be a faffy job.
- She found the online form faffy and gave up halfway through.
- Changing a bicycle tyre can be faffy without the right tools.
- He complained that the new system was too faffy for daily use.
- It's a faffy process, but the results are worth the effort.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FAFFY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FAFFY
Common questions about FAFFY
- Is FAFFY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FAFFY is not in it.
- How many points is FAFFY worth?
- FAFFY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FAFFY mean?
- Awkward, fiddly and more time-consuming than it should be.
- What letters can be added to FAFFY?
- No single letter can be added to FAFFY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FAFFY:
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