NAVVY is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. NAVVY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NAVVY?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NAVVY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NAVVY
No single letter turns NAVVY into another word.
How NAVVY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NAVVY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 2 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 697,107.
What does NAVVY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalBritish
A laborer, especially in Britain, employed in heavy manual work such as digging canals, railways or roads.
A navvy was originally one of the laborers who dug the canals of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain, and the name later spread to men building railways and roads by hand. The word is a shortened form of navigator, the older term for someone who dug a navigation, meaning a canal. Because such work was hard, dirty and physically demanding, navvy became a byword for tough manual labor in general. The term is now mostly historical, tied to the era before machines took over large-scale digging.
How NAVVY is used
Chiefly historical and British, used of manual laborers on canals, railways and roads before the age of heavy machinery.
- The navvy swung his pick from dawn until the light failed.
- Each navvy on the crew dug his own stretch of the canal.
- His grandfather had worked as a navvy on the new railway line.
- The museum display shows the tools a navvy carried to the site.
- Local legend says a navvy discovered the old coins while digging the cutting.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NAVVY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NAVVY
1 longer words begin with NAVVY.
Shorter words from the letters in NAVVY
Common questions about NAVVY
- Is NAVVY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NAVVY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NAVVY worth?
- NAVVY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NAVVY mean?
- A laborer, especially in Britain, employed in heavy manual work such as digging canals, railways or roads.
- What letters can be added to NAVVY?
- No single letter can be added to NAVVY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NAVVY:
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