MASTY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. MASTY 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept MASTY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MASTY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MASTY
No single letter turns MASTY into another word.
How MASTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MASTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does MASTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Full of mast, meaning richly covered with the fallen acorns, beechnuts, and other nuts once used to feed pigs in a forest.
In old farming language, mast is the harvest of nuts that falls from oak and beech trees each autumn, not a ship's mast, and a wood described as masty had enough of it to fatten pigs turned loose to forage. Foresters and farmers used the word to judge how good a season's mast crop was likely to be for grazing livestock. The term has faded along with the old practice of driving pigs into forests to feed.
How MASTY is used
An old rural word for woodland rich in fallen nuts; rarely used outside historical farming contexts.
- The swineherd drove his pigs into the masty wood each autumn.
- A masty year meant plenty of acorns for the herd.
- They judged the forest masty enough to feed the whole village's pigs.
- Old records describe a masty season as unusually profitable for farmers.
- The oldest oaks made the grove the most masty in the county.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MASTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of MASTY
The 5 tiles of MASTY in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in MASTY
2 words end in MASTY. Useful as a back hook: play MASTY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in MASTY
Common questions about MASTY
- Is MASTY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MASTY is not in it.
- How many points is MASTY worth?
- MASTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MASTY mean?
- Full of mast, meaning richly covered with the fallen acorns, beechnuts, and other nuts once used to feed pigs in a forest.
- What letters can be added to MASTY?
- No single letter can be added to MASTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MASTY:
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