MOTTY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. MOTTY 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 MOTTY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MOTTY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MOTTY
No single letter turns MOTTY into another word.
How MOTTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in MOTTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 156,849.
What stands out about MOTTY
- The letters of MOTTY 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 MOTTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Britishdialect
A mark on the ground used as a target in the street game of pitch-and-toss, where players throw coins to see who lands closest.
In pitch-and-toss, each player tossed a coin toward a line or peg called the motty, and the coin landing nearest it won the throw. The game was common among street gamblers and schoolboys in older British and Scots life. The word survives in the phrase cop your motty, meaning to get one's fair share of blame or punishment.
How MOTTY is used
British and Scots dialect; mostly historical, kept alive in the fixed phrase cop your motty.
- The boys scratched a motty in the dirt before the coins came out.
- Whoever landed a coin nearest the motty took the whole pot.
- His grandfather still spoke of playing motty in the schoolyard.
- A coin that missed the motty by an inch still counted as close.
- He said the culprit would soon cop his motty for the broken window.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MOTTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MOTTY
Common questions about MOTTY
- Is MOTTY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and MOTTY is not in it.
- How many points is MOTTY worth?
- MOTTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MOTTY mean?
- A mark on the ground used as a target in the street game of pitch-and-toss, where players throw coins to see who lands closest.
- What letters can be added to MOTTY?
- No single letter can be added to MOTTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of MOTTY:
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