FINNY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FINNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FINNY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FINNY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FINNY
No single letter turns FINNY into another word.
How FINNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FINNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 139,421.
What stands out about FINNY
- The letters of FINNY run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FINNY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Having fins, or, in old and poetic use, abounding in fish.
Finny is almost always a literary word rather than a plain descriptive one: it turns up in poetry and older prose as a slightly grand way of naming fish collectively, as in the finny tribe or the finny race, phrases that would sound strange in ordinary modern speech. The word is still occasionally used more literally of a fin-bearing creature specifically, but even there it carries a faintly old-fashioned flavour.
How FINNY is used
Before a noun, chiefly in older and poetic writing, as in the finny tribe or finny creatures.
- The poem calls the lake home to a finny multitude.
- He fished for the finny tribe from dawn until dusk.
- A finny shape flickered under the surface and was gone.
- Old anglers wrote fondly of the finny race.
- The old translation still speaks of finny creatures of the deep.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FINNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in FINNY
1 words end in FINNY. Useful as a back hook: play FINNY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in FINNY
Common questions about FINNY
- Is FINNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FINNY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FINNY worth?
- FINNY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FINNY mean?
- Having fins, or, in old and poetic use, abounding in fish.
- What letters can be added to FINNY?
- No single letter can be added to FINNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FINNY:
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