GOTHY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. GOTHY 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GOTHY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GOTHY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GOTHY
No single letter turns GOTHY into another word.
How GOTHY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GOTHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does GOTHY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
In the style of the goth subculture: black clothes, pale make-up, dark music.
Gothy is the hedged form, and the hedge is the point: it says something leans that way without claiming membership. A gothy bedroom or a gothy phase is always described from outside, and anybody inside the subculture would use the plain noun instead — the extra syllable is what marks the distance.
How GOTHY is used
Before and after the noun — a gothy jacket, the whole album is gothy.
- She went through a gothy phase and kept the boots.
- The room is gothy in a way that took real effort.
- A gothy cover does not make it a gothy record.
- He calls the whole decade gothy and is not entirely wrong.
- Gothy is what people say when they mean nearly but not quite.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GOTHY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GOTHY
Common questions about GOTHY
- Is GOTHY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GOTHY is not in it.
- How many points is GOTHY worth?
- GOTHY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GOTHY mean?
- In the style of the goth subculture: black clothes, pale make-up, dark music.
- What letters can be added to GOTHY?
- No single letter can be added to GOTHY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GOTHY:
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