FAY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. FAY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FAY?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FAY is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FAY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
faysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FAY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in FAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,492.
What does FAY mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A fairy, in older and poetic writing.
Fay is the elder form of the word that became fairy, and it survives in Morgan le Fay and in verse that wants an archaic sound. A separate fay is a carpenter's verb meaning to fit two pieces closely together, and the two have nothing whatever in common.
How FAY is used
Countable: a fay, two fays. Chiefly poetic.
- The poem calls her a fay and leaves it at that.
- A fay in that period was not a small creature with wings.
- Morgan le Fay is the best known fay in English.
- The joiner fayed the boards until no light showed.
- Two fays appear in the first act and never again.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FAY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FAY
15 longer words begin with FAY.
Words ending in FAY
1 words end in FAY. Useful as a back hook: play FAY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in FAY
Common questions about FAY
- Is FAY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FAY, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FAY worth?
- FAY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FAY mean?
- A fairy, in older and poetic writing.
- What letters can be added to FAY?
- FAY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of FAY:
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