FLUYT is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FLUYT 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 FLUYT?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FLUYT is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 3.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FLUYT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
fluytsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How FLUYT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FLUYT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does FLUYT mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalnautical
A type of light, seventeenth-century Dutch cargo ship, built with a narrow deck and a bulging hull to reduce toll charges while carrying a large cargo.
Dutch shipbuilders devised the fluyt around 1595 as a way to cut the cost of moving bulk goods such as grain and timber across northern Europe. Harbour dues of the time were often calculated from the width of a vessel's topmost deck, so shaping that part of the ship more tightly let owners pay less while the hold beneath still swelled outward to take on plenty of freight. Because the design also needed a smaller crew than older cargo vessels, the fluyt helped the Dutch Republic dominate seventeenth-century European shipping trade. Later merchant vessels elsewhere in Europe borrowed elements of its economical shape.
How FLUYT is used
Historical and nautical, used mainly by historians and museum descriptions of early modern shipping, rarely in everyday speech.
- A replica fluyt sails out of a Dutch harbour museum each summer.
- The merchant loaded grain onto a fluyt bound for Amsterdam.
- Historians credit the fluyt with lowering the cost of Baltic trade.
- The museum model shows the fluyt's distinctive narrow deck.
- Dutch shipwrights built hundreds of fluyt vessels during the trade boom.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FLUYT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of FLUYT
The 5 tiles of FLUYT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with FLUYT
1 longer words begin with FLUYT.
Shorter words from the letters in FLUYT
Common questions about FLUYT
- Is FLUYT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FLUYT, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FLUYT worth?
- FLUYT is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FLUYT mean?
- A type of light, seventeenth-century Dutch cargo ship, built with a narrow deck and a bulging hull to reduce toll charges while carrying a large cargo.
- What letters can be added to FLUYT?
- FLUYT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FLUYT:
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