GNATTY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. GNATTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GNATTY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GNATTY is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GNATTY
No single letter turns GNATTY into another word.
How GNATTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in GNATTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 245,278.
What stands out about GNATTY
- GNATTY 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 GNATTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Infested with gnats, or plagued by swarms of them.
Gnatty is built on the small biting fly, and it describes a place or a time of year when the insects hang about in clouds. Campers and anglers use it for the damp, shady spots by water where the air seems to be alive. It is a plain descriptive word with no figurative sense of its own.
How GNATTY is used
Informal and descriptive; used of places, evenings and seasons rather than of people.
- The gnatty bank of the stream made lunch a hurried affair.
- We moved the tent because the hollow was far too gnatty at dusk.
- It was a warm, gnatty evening and nobody wanted to sit outside.
- A gnatty summer in the marsh left the cattle restless.
- She wore a veil on the gnatty walk through the reeds.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GNATTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GNATTY
Common questions about GNATTY
- Is GNATTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GNATTY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GNATTY worth?
- GNATTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GNATTY mean?
- Infested with gnats, or plagued by swarms of them.
- What letters can be added to GNATTY?
- No single letter can be added to GNATTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of GNATTY:
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