KELTY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. KELTY 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 KELTY?
| 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 KELTY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KELTY
No single letter turns KELTY into another word.
How KELTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KELTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does KELTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scotsarchaic
An extra glass of drink imposed as a forfeit on someone who failed to finish a toast fairly.
Scottish drinking custom once demanded that a glass be drained without pausing, and anyone caught cheating had to down a kelty as a penalty on top of the round already poured. Walter Scott used the word in his novel Rob Roy, and the phrase Keltie's mends grew out of the same custom as a byword for a doubled punishment. Both the tradition and the word are now remembered mainly through literature and dialect dictionaries rather than through present-day drinking.
How KELTY is used
Scots dialect, archaic; met mostly in older literature and dialect glossaries.
- He was made to drink a kelty for setting his glass down early.
- The company called for a kelty the moment he hesitated.
- Scott's novel explains a kelty as the forfeit for an unfair drink.
- No one at the table escaped a kelty that evening.
- The old phrase Keltie's mends doubled the size of the next kelty.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KELTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in KELTY
Common questions about KELTY
- Is KELTY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and KELTY is not in it.
- How many points is KELTY worth?
- KELTY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KELTY mean?
- An extra glass of drink imposed as a forfeit on someone who failed to finish a toast fairly.
- What letters can be added to KELTY?
- No single letter can be added to KELTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KELTY:
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