PAINTY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. PAINTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PAINTY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PAINTY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PAINTY
No single letter turns PAINTY into another word.
How PAINTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PAINTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 102,199.
What does PAINTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Marked, smeared or heavy with paint; looking as though too much paint has been used.
A room that smells painty has been decorated very recently, and a brush gone stiff is painty to the touch. Critics also use the word of a picture in which the pigment looks laid on too thickly, so that the brushwork shows more than the subject. It is an informal descriptive word built from paint with the common -y ending.
How PAINTY is used
Informal; used of smell, texture, clothing or the look of a canvas.
- The hallway still smelled painty a week after the decorators left.
- He came home with painty hands and a streak across his cheek.
- The portrait looked too painty, every stroke of the brush showing.
- Her old apron was stiff and painty from years of use.
- Open the window, because the whole flat is painty today.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PAINTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PAINTY
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Common questions about PAINTY
- Is PAINTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PAINTY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PAINTY worth?
- PAINTY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PAINTY mean?
- Marked, smeared or heavy with paint; looking as though too much paint has been used.
- What letters can be added to PAINTY?
- No single letter can be added to PAINTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PAINTY:
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