GUTTY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. GUTTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GUTTY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GUTTY is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GUTTY
No single letter turns GUTTY into another word.
How GUTTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GUTTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 209,132.
What does GUTTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A golf ball made of solid gutta-percha, used before the invention of rubber-core balls; also, informally, a courageous or plucky manner.
A gutty was shaped by hand or in a mold from gutta-percha, a rubbery latex harvested from certain tropical trees, and it replaced the older feather-stuffed golf ball in the middle of the nineteenth century. Players prized the gutty because it could be reshaped after damage simply by reheating it, unlike its fragile predecessor, though it still flew differently from the layered rubber balls that eventually replaced it. The same spelling also survives as an informal British adjective close in meaning to gutsy, describing someone who shows pluck or nerve, though this sense is far less common than the golfing one. Golf historians and collectors are the people most likely to use gutty today, usually while describing equipment from the sport's early decades.
How GUTTY is used
Chiefly historical in golf writing; the adjective sense meaning courageous is rare and mainly British.
- The museum case held a battered gutty from the 1860s.
- Golfers switched from the gutty to rubber-core balls within a few decades.
- He collected old clubs designed to strike a gutty rather than a modern ball.
- A cracked gutty could be remolded and used again.
- Old records describe caddies carrying a spare gutty in case of damage.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GUTTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GUTTY
Common questions about GUTTY
- Is GUTTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GUTTY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GUTTY worth?
- GUTTY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GUTTY mean?
- A golf ball made of solid gutta-percha, used before the invention of rubber-core balls; also, informally, a courageous or plucky manner.
- What letters can be added to GUTTY?
- No single letter can be added to GUTTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GUTTY:
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