NYE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. NYE 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept NYE?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NYE is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NYE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NYE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in NYE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What does NYE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A flock of pheasants.
Nye belongs to the medieval lists of collective nouns that gave English a murder of crows and an exaltation of larks. Those lists were a courtly game as much as a record of speech, which is why nye survives in word books and shooting manuals and almost nowhere else.
How NYE is used
Used with of: a nye of pheasants. The plural is nyes.
- A nye of pheasants went up from the hedge like a badly packed suitcase.
- The book gives nye for pheasants and offers no evidence at all.
- Two nyes crossed the ride and the whole line stopped walking.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NYE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NYE
The 3 tiles of NYE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with NYE
2 longer words begin with NYE.
Words ending in NYE
1 words end in NYE. Useful as a back hook: play NYE onto a word already on the board.
Words with NYE inside
5 words contain NYE in the middle. Words that start with NYE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in NYE
Common questions about NYE
- Is NYE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and NYE is not in it.
- How many points is NYE worth?
- NYE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NYE mean?
- A flock of pheasants.
- What letters can be added to NYE?
- NYE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of NYE:
Open NYE in the Word Finder