FORTY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. FORTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FORTY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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 FORTY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FORTY
No single letter turns FORTY into another word.
How FORTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FORTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What stands out about FORTY
- The letters of FORTY 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 FORTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
The cardinal number equal to four times ten, written 40; also used as a noun for that number or quantity.
Forty names the quantity between thirty-nine and forty-one, and it appears both as an adjective modifying a noun, as in forty years, and as a noun standing for the number itself. The word turns up in several fixed expressions, such as the biblical forty days and forty nights or the phrase forty winks for a short nap. In sport, forty also marks a particular score, such as the point value before deuce in tennis. Despite its plain meaning, the word has picked up these extra idiomatic uses over centuries of English.
How FORTY is used
A common, everyday number word, also used figuratively in set phrases such as forty winks.
- She turned forty last week and celebrated with old friends.
- The recipe calls for forty minutes in the oven.
- He took forty winks before driving the rest of the way home.
- The stadium holds just over forty thousand spectators.
- Forty years of marriage called for a proper celebration.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FORTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with FORTY
2 longer words begin with FORTY.
Shorter words from the letters in FORTY
Common questions about FORTY
- Is FORTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FORTY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FORTY worth?
- FORTY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FORTY mean?
- The cardinal number equal to four times ten, written 40; also used as a noun for that number or quantity.
- What letters can be added to FORTY?
- No single letter can be added to FORTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FORTY:
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