FROWSTY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. FROWSTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept FROWSTY?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FROWSTY is to know. It scores 16 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FROWSTY
No single letter turns FROWSTY into another word.
How FROWSTY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in FROWSTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,737 thousand.
What stands out about FROWSTY
- FROWSTY gets by on a single vowel across 7 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does FROWSTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
British
Smelling stale, stuffy and warm, as a room does when its air has not been changed.
A frowsty room has closed windows, old furniture and a faint odor of damp or dust. The word is British and a little humorous, and it is used mostly about places rather than people. It is the main form listed here; frowsy and frowzy are spelling variants covered elsewhere.
How FROWSTY is used
Frowsty is used in British writing to describe stuffy rooms, bedrooms and old buildings.
- The spare bedroom was frowsty after a winter with the windows shut.
- A frowsty smell of old books met us in the hall.
- He threw open the curtains to chase away the frowsty air.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FROWSTY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FROWSTY
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Common questions about FROWSTY
- Is FROWSTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts FROWSTY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is FROWSTY worth?
- FROWSTY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FROWSTY mean?
- Smelling stale, stuffy and warm, as a room does when its air has not been changed.
- What letters can be added to FROWSTY?
- No single letter can be added to FROWSTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of FROWSTY:
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