KNOTTY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. KNOTTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept KNOTTY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KNOTTY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KNOTTY
No single letter turns KNOTTY into another word.
How KNOTTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in KNOTTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 827,814.
What stands out about KNOTTY
- KNOTTY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
- The letters of KNOTTY run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does KNOTTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Full of knots, or very complicated and hard to solve.
Knotty can be quite literal, as in a knotty pine plank or a knotty piece of rope. More often it is used for a problem, question or point of law that is tangled and difficult to resolve, as in a knotty issue. The figure comes from the way a knot is hard to undo. Old wood, old trees and weathered hands can also be called knotty.
How KNOTTY is used
Common in the phrase knotty problem; also used literally of wood and rope.
- The committee faced a knotty question about money.
- The cabin was lined with knotty pine.
- He untied the knotty string with patient fingers.
- Lawyers argued over a knotty point of contract law.
- A knotty branch lay across the path.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KNOTTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in KNOTTY
Common questions about KNOTTY
- Is KNOTTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KNOTTY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KNOTTY worth?
- KNOTTY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KNOTTY mean?
- Full of knots, or very complicated and hard to solve.
- What letters can be added to KNOTTY?
- No single letter can be added to KNOTTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of KNOTTY:
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