MINNY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. MINNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MINNY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MINNY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MINNY
No single letter turns MINNY into another word.
How MINNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MINNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 139,421.
What does MINNY mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectScots
A small fish, especially a minnow; a dialect variant spelling of minnow.
Minny is an old dialect and Scots form of minnow, the tiny freshwater fish often caught by children in streams and ponds. Writers using regional or archaic English sometimes chose minny where a modern text would simply say minnow. The word appears occasionally as a personal name as well, unrelated to the fish sense.
How MINNY is used
Dialect and chiefly Scots noun, a variant spelling of minnow rather than a distinct fish.
- The boys spent the afternoon catching minny in the burn.
- A shoal of minny darted through the shallow water.
- Old country tales mention children fishing for minny with jars.
- The stream was thick with tiny minny in early summer.
- He remembered netting minny as a boy on the farm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MINNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MINNY
Common questions about MINNY
- Is MINNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MINNY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MINNY worth?
- MINNY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MINNY mean?
- A small fish, especially a minnow; a dialect variant spelling of minnow.
- What letters can be added to MINNY?
- No single letter can be added to MINNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MINNY:
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