FROWY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. FROWY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept FROWY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful FROWY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for FROWY
No single letter turns FROWY into another word.
How FROWY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in FROWY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| f | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does FROWY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectarchaic
Having a musty or rancid smell, especially said of stale food such as old butter.
Frowy describes food, especially fat or butter, that has gone stale and taken on an unpleasant, musty smell. The word appears alongside close variants such as froughy and frowie, all pointing to the same idea of staleness setting in over time. It belongs mostly to older regional English rather than to modern standard vocabulary.
How FROWY is used
Rare and dialectal; encountered chiefly in older texts and regional glossaries rather than current speech.
- The butter had turned frowy after sitting too long in the heat.
- She threw out the frowy cheese without a second thought.
- A frowy smell rose from the old cellar.
- The bread had gone frowy at the edges.
- He complained the meat tasted frowy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of FROWY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in FROWY
Common questions about FROWY
- Is FROWY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and FROWY is not in it.
- How many points is FROWY worth?
- FROWY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does FROWY mean?
- Having a musty or rancid smell, especially said of stale food such as old butter.
- What letters can be added to FROWY?
- No single letter can be added to FROWY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of FROWY:
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