FRETTY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. FRETTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FRETTY?
| 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 FRETTY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FRETTY
No single letter turns FRETTY into another word.
How FRETTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in FRETTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 275,938.
What stands out about FRETTY
- FRETTY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FRETTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
heraldry
Decorated with a lattice of interlaced bands, or in heraldry covered with a crisscross pattern.
Fretty comes from the old word fret, a piece of ornamental work, and it describes a surface patterned with interwoven strips. In heraldry it names a shield or a figure covered with a trellis of crossing bands, and writers on coats of arms often simply say that a field is fretty. In older or regional English it was also used to mean fretful or peevish.
How FRETTY is used
Rare; mainly a heraldic term, with an older sense meaning irritable.
- The shield was blazoned argent, fretty gules.
- A fretty pattern covered the carved wooden screen.
- Heralds call a lattice design fretty.
- The fretty ironwork on the gate cast sharp shadows.
- The crest book shows a fretty shield on page ten.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FRETTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FRETTY
Common questions about FRETTY
- Is FRETTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FRETTY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FRETTY worth?
- FRETTY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FRETTY mean?
- Decorated with a lattice of interlaced bands, or in heraldry covered with a crisscross pattern.
- What letters can be added to FRETTY?
- No single letter can be added to FRETTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of FRETTY:
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