NOWTY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. NOWTY 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept NOWTY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOWTY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOWTY
No single letter turns NOWTY into another word.
How NOWTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NOWTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does NOWTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialectBritish
Bad-tempered and easily irritated.
Nowty belongs to northern English and Scots speech and describes a mood rather than a permanent trait, so someone can be nowty today and cheerful tomorrow. It has no single standard-English word that covers exactly the same short-fuse, snappish feel, which is why the dialect term has held on in local speech instead of being replaced.
How NOWTY is used
Regional; used mainly in Northern England and parts of Scotland, more in speech than in formal writing.
- He gets nowty when he has not eaten for a while.
- The children were nowty by the end of the long journey.
- She snapped at the smallest thing, properly nowty all afternoon.
- A nowty reply was all the question deserved, apparently.
- Grandad turns nowty if you interrupt his programme.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOWTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NOWTY
The 5 tiles of NOWTY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in NOWTY
Common questions about NOWTY
- Is NOWTY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and NOWTY is not in it.
- How many points is NOWTY worth?
- NOWTY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOWTY mean?
- Bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- What letters can be added to NOWTY?
- No single letter can be added to NOWTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NOWTY:
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