FESTA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. FESTA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FESTA?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FESTA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FESTA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FESTA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FESTA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about FESTA
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FESTA mean in Scrabble?
noun
informalregional
A festival or celebration, especially a community feast day honouring a patron saint, as held in Italian and other Mediterranean traditions.
Festa is the Italian word for a festival or party, borrowed into English mainly through Italian-American and Mediterranean communities to describe a lively public celebration, often centred on a patron saint's feast day with a procession, food stalls and music. Small towns across Italy still hold a festa each year for their own saint, and the word travelled with immigrant communities to describe similar street celebrations abroad. In English it usually keeps its Italian flavour rather than becoming a fully general word for any party.
How FESTA is used
Used mainly in describing Italian and Italian-American community celebrations, less common for other kinds of parties.
- The whole neighbourhood turned out for the summer festa.
- Stalls selling sausage and pastries lined the streets during the festa.
- Each village in the hills holds its own festa for the local saint.
- They danced late into the night at the festa in the piazza.
- The festa ended with fireworks over the harbour.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FESTA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FESTA
The 5 tiles of FESTA in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with FESTA
4 longer words begin with FESTA.
Words with FESTA inside
17 words contain FESTA in the middle. Words that start with FESTA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FESTA
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Common questions about FESTA
- Is FESTA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FESTA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FESTA worth?
- FESTA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FESTA mean?
- A festival or celebration, especially a community feast day honouring a patron saint, as held in Italian and other Mediterranean traditions.
- What letters can be added to FESTA?
- FESTA takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FESTA:
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