HOY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. HOY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOY?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOY is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in HOY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,053.
What does HOY mean in Scrabble?
interjection
dialectBritish
A call used to attract attention, especially at sea.
Hoy is the older and rougher form of the greeting that became ahoy, and it belongs to boats and to droving alike: it was shouted at animals as often as at people. It survives in northern English, where to hoy something also means to throw it.
How HOY is used
Stands alone as a call. Also a northern verb meaning to throw.
- Hoy, you on the quay, catch this.
- He hoyed the rope across without looking.
- The word hoy came before ahoy and outlived it in the north.
- Hoy at a herd of cattle means something different again.
- She hoyed the bag into the back of the van.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOY
18 longer words begin with HOY.
Words ending in HOY
3 words end in HOY. Useful as a back hook: play HOY onto a word already on the board.
Words with HOY inside
10 words contain HOY in the middle. Words that start with HOY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HOY
Common questions about HOY
- Is HOY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOY, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOY worth?
- HOY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOY mean?
- A call used to attract attention, especially at sea.
- What letters can be added to HOY?
- HOY takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of HOY:
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