GYNNY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. GYNNY 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 GYNNY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GYNNY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GYNNY
No single letter turns GYNNY into another word.
How GYNNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GYNNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| y | 2 | 2 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,673 thousand.
What does GYNNY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
An archaic word for a guinea hen, the noisy fowl kept for its loud, harsh call.
Gynny is one of the oldest recorded spellings for the guinea hen, going back to the sixteenth century and appearing once in Shakespeare's own writing. The spelling gynny changed several times over the centuries before guinea hen and guinea fowl became the standard names. Farmers valued the bird less for its meat than for the racket it raised whenever a stranger came near. A gynny was, in effect, a living alarm long before dogs took over that job on most farms.
How GYNNY is used
Archaic; replaced long ago by guinea hen and guinea fowl in ordinary use.
- Old farm inventories sometimes list a gynny among the poultry.
- The word gynny is far older than guinea fowl.
- A single gynny could out-shout the whole yard.
- A line of old verse used gynny where a modern text would say guinea hen.
- Nobody now would call the bird a gynny outside a history of the word.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GYNNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in GYNNY
Common questions about GYNNY
- Is GYNNY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GYNNY is not in it.
- How many points is GYNNY worth?
- GYNNY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GYNNY mean?
- An archaic word for a guinea hen, the noisy fowl kept for its loud, harsh call.
- What letters can be added to GYNNY?
- No single letter can be added to GYNNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GYNNY:
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