FAWNY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. FAWNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FAWNY?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FAWNY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FAWNY
No single letter turns FAWNY into another word.
How FAWNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FAWNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does FAWNY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rare
Having a light yellowish-brown colour, like that of a fawn.
Fawny turns up almost exclusively in nineteenth and early twentieth-century writing about tailoring, describing coats, gloves and upholstery fabric rather than nature or landscape. Milliners and drapers of that era used a wide vocabulary of subtle shade names, fawny among them, to distinguish stock that would otherwise all be lumped together as merely neutral. Modern colour charts have largely dropped such fine distinctions in favour of broader, catalogue-friendly names, which is why fawny now reads as a period piece rather than a term a paint shop would use today.
How FAWNY is used
A little-used colour adjective, more common in older descriptive writing than in current speech.
- The dress was a soft fawny shade that suited her complexion.
- He wore a fawny overcoat against the autumn chill.
- The horse's fawny coat gleamed in the afternoon light.
- She chose fawny curtains to match the room's warm tones.
- The old photograph showed a fawny suit gone slightly grey with age.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FAWNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FAWNY
Common questions about FAWNY
- Is FAWNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FAWNY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FAWNY worth?
- FAWNY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FAWNY mean?
- Having a light yellowish-brown colour, like that of a fawn.
- What letters can be added to FAWNY?
- No single letter can be added to FAWNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FAWNY:
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