FESTY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. FESTY 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FESTY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FESTY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FESTY
No single letter turns FESTY into another word.
How FESTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FESTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does FESTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
slangAustralian
Dirty or unpleasant, and in Australian slang, very bad.
Festy comes from an older sense tied to festering, and Australians stretch it to cover almost anything they want to complain about, from a smelly sock to a ruined afternoon. Calling a party, a comment, or a whole week festy is a way of dismissing it without much thought, the way an American might say gross or lousy. Because it began as an informal coinage rather than a standard formation, festy stays firmly in casual speech.
How FESTY is used
Informal Australian slang, most common in spoken conversation rather than formal writing.
- He left his festy socks under the couch for a week.
- The bathroom at the old campsite was genuinely festy.
- Everyone agreed the meeting had been a festy waste of time.
- She wrinkled her nose at the festy smell coming from the bin.
- Losing the match on the last kick made for a festy afternoon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FESTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words with FESTY inside
4 words contain FESTY in the middle. Words that start with FESTY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in FESTY
Common questions about FESTY
- Is FESTY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FESTY is not in it.
- How many points is FESTY worth?
- FESTY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FESTY mean?
- Dirty or unpleasant, and in Australian slang, very bad.
- What letters can be added to FESTY?
- No single letter can be added to FESTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FESTY:
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