PESTY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. PESTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PESTY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PESTY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PESTY
No single letter turns PESTY into another word.
How PESTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PESTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What stands out about PESTY
- 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 PESTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informal
Causing annoyance or trouble in the manner of a pest; troublesome and persistent in a minor way.
Pesty is an informal way of calling something a nuisance without going as far as calling it a genuine pest. A pesty habit or a pesty child is annoying rather than dangerous, and the word carries a lighter, half-joking tone than pest itself. It is used loosely, about anything from a buzzing insect to a small recurring problem at work, and it rarely appears in careful or formal writing.
How PESTY is used
Informal; used about minor, repeated annoyances rather than serious threats.
- The pesty fly kept landing on his sandwich no matter how often he waved it off.
- She called her little brother pesty whenever he copied everything she said.
- A pesty rattle in the dashboard made the whole drive irritating.
- The gardener complained about a pesty weed that returned every spring.
- His pesty questions interrupted the meeting every few minutes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PESTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PESTY
The 5 tiles of PESTY in a different order — 2 found.
Words with PESTY inside
4 words contain PESTY in the middle. Words that start with PESTY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PESTY
Common questions about PESTY
- Is PESTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PESTY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PESTY worth?
- PESTY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PESTY mean?
- Causing annoyance or trouble in the manner of a pest; troublesome and persistent in a minor way.
- What letters can be added to PESTY?
- No single letter can be added to PESTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PESTY:
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