JAY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. JAY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept JAY?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JAY is to know. It scores 13 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JAY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
jaysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JAY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in JAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,983.
What stands out about JAY
- JAY scores 13 points, more than twice the average for a 3-letter word (6.3).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does JAY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A noisy woodland bird of the crow family, often with bright blue wing markings.
The jay is the loudest thing in a quiet wood: it shouts at foxes, cats and people long before you see them, which is why keepers treat it as an alarm system and pigeons treat it as a warning. It also buries acorns by the thousand and forgets enough of them to plant whole stands of oak.
How JAY is used
Countable: a jay, a pair of jays. The North American blue jay is a different bird with the same family name.
- A jay screamed twice and every bird in the wood went quiet.
- The jay buried acorns along the bank all through October.
- We watched a jay work its way down the hedge, taking its time.
- Jays will rob a nest as readily as any crow.
- The blue on a jay wing is not pigment at all, but structure.
- He heard the jay before he saw the fox it was scolding.
- A single jay feather turned up in the grass by the gate.
- Oaks come up in odd places because a jay planted them and forgot.
- The jay is shy in the open and impossible to miss in the trees.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JAY and 9 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JAY
18 longer words begin with JAY.
Words ending in JAY
4 words end in JAY. Useful as a back hook: play JAY onto a word already on the board.
Words with JAY inside
7 words contain JAY in the middle. Words that start with JAY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in JAY
Common questions about JAY
- Is JAY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JAY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JAY worth?
- JAY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JAY mean?
- A noisy woodland bird of the crow family, often with bright blue wing markings.
- What letters can be added to JAY?
- JAY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of JAY:
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