KANDY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. KANDY 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 13 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept KANDY?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KANDY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KANDY
No single letter turns KANDY into another word.
How KANDY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KANDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does KANDY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A traditional South Asian unit of weight, roughly five hundred pounds, used chiefly for pricing bulk cargo such as cotton and spice.
A kandy varied somewhat from port to port along the Indian and Sri Lankan coasts, since it grew out of local trade practice rather than a single fixed standard. Merchants used it to price cargo sold by the shipload rather than by the pound, and the same measure appears in older trade records under the related spellings candy and candie. The unit fell out of use once metric and imperial systems replaced regional trade measures.
How KANDY is used
Historical; found in older accounts of South Asian trade rather than in current use.
- The manifest recorded the cotton by the kandy rather than the pound.
- A single kandy of pepper filled most of the hold.
- Traders along the coast quoted prices by the kandy.
- Old ledgers list a kandy as close to five hundred pounds.
- The kandy was never fixed to one exact weight across every port.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KANDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in KANDY
Common questions about KANDY
- Is KANDY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and KANDY is not in it.
- How many points is KANDY worth?
- KANDY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KANDY mean?
- A traditional South Asian unit of weight, roughly five hundred pounds, used chiefly for pricing bulk cargo such as cotton and spice.
- What letters can be added to KANDY?
- No single letter can be added to KANDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KANDY:
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