OYE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. OYE 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 OYE?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OYE is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OYE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OYE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OYE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 842.
What does OYE mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
A grandchild, an old term for the child of one's son or daughter.
Oye comes from Middle English by way of Old French, where it named the same family relation that grandchild covers today. The shorter spelling oy names the same relation and is treated as a variant of oye.
How OYE is used
Archaic; rarely used outside dialect speech or older texts.
- The old woman doted on her oye every summer.
- He left the farm to his oye in his will.
- Her oye visited every Sunday after church.
- The chronicle names the king's oye as heir to the throne.
- Grandmother called the boy her favourite oye.
- The oye ran through the orchard picking apples.
- Villagers gathered to celebrate the birth of the laird's oye.
- She knitted a scarf for her youngest oye.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OYE and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see OYE
- Oye and its shorter spelling oy both trace back to the same old French word for grandchild.
- Oye survives today mainly as an entry in word-game dictionaries rather than everyday speech.
Words starting with OYE
7 longer words begin with OYE.
Words ending in OYE
4 words end in OYE. Useful as a back hook: play OYE onto a word already on the board.
Words with OYE inside
Showing 24 of 104 words that contain OYE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OYE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in OYE
Common questions about OYE
- Is OYE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and OYE is not in it.
- How many points is OYE worth?
- OYE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OYE mean?
- A grandchild, an old term for the child of one's son or daughter.
- What letters can be added to OYE?
- OYE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OYE:
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