PASPY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. PASPY 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 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PASPY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PASPY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PASPY
No single letter turns PASPY into another word.
How PASPY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PASPY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,046 thousand.
What stands out about PASPY
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PASPY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicmusic
An old, slow triple-time dance performed at court, an English form of the French passepied.
A paspy is an English rendering of the French passepied, a graceful dance that featured in court entertainments and later in instrumental suites. Composers wrote paspy movements alongside minuets and other short dance pieces.
How PASPY is used
Appears in older English writing about dance and baroque music.
- The suite closed with a lively paspy.
- Dancers at court learned the paspy along with the minuet.
- The manuscript labels the third movement a paspy.
- A paspy moves faster than a sarabande but keeps its grace.
- Historians of dance still argue over the exact steps of the paspy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PASPY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PASPY
The 5 tiles of PASPY in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PASPY
Common questions about PASPY
- Is PASPY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PASPY is not in it.
- How many points is PASPY worth?
- PASPY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PASPY mean?
- An old, slow triple-time dance performed at court, an English form of the French passepied.
- What letters can be added to PASPY?
- No single letter can be added to PASPY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PASPY:
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