FLAKY is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. FLAKY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FLAKY?
| 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 FLAKY is to know. It scores 15 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLAKY
No single letter turns FLAKY into another word.
How FLAKY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FLAKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 522,830.
What does FLAKY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Breaking easily into small flat pieces, or, informally, unreliable and prone to change plans suddenly.
Flaky most literally describes pastry, skin or paint that breaks apart into small, thin pieces rather than staying in one solid mass. From that image, English speakers built an informal sense describing a person who is unreliable, forgetful or prone to cancelling plans without warning. A flaky friend might agree to something and then vanish without explanation, mirroring the way flaky material falls away under light pressure. The word also describes software or equipment that fails intermittently, breaking down for no obvious reason.
How FLAKY is used
The pastry and material sense is standard English; the sense describing an unreliable person or system is informal.
- The pie crust turned out perfectly flaky.
- Old paint peeled off the fence in flaky strips.
- Their flaky friend cancelled dinner again at the last minute.
- The office wifi has been flaky all week.
- Sunburned skin often looks dry and flaky for days.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLAKY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FLAKY
Common questions about FLAKY
- Is FLAKY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FLAKY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FLAKY worth?
- FLAKY is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLAKY mean?
- Breaking easily into small flat pieces, or, informally, unreliable and prone to change plans suddenly.
- What letters can be added to FLAKY?
- No single letter can be added to FLAKY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FLAKY:
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