PIGSTY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. PIGSTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PIGSTY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PIGSTY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PIGSTY
No single letter turns PIGSTY into another word.
How PIGSTY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PIGSTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 459,897.
What stands out about PIGSTY
- PIGSTY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PIGSTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A pen or small building where pigs are kept; also a very dirty, untidy place.
On a farm the pigsty is the enclosure with a shelter in which pigs are housed and fed. In everyday speech the word is used for any room that is a mess, usually when a parent is scolding a teenager about a bedroom. The same sense appears in the shorter pigpen in American English, though pigsty is more common in British speech.
How PIGSTY is used
Literal on a farm, and figurative for any filthy, untidy room.
- The farmer cleaned out the pigsty every morning.
- Tidy your room, it looks like a pigsty!
- The old pigsty was turned into a garden shed.
- A fox crept past the pigsty at dawn.
- He called the student flat a pigsty.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PIGSTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PIGSTY
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Common questions about PIGSTY
- Is PIGSTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PIGSTY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PIGSTY worth?
- PIGSTY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PIGSTY mean?
- A pen or small building where pigs are kept; also a very dirty, untidy place.
- What letters can be added to PIGSTY?
- No single letter can be added to PIGSTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PIGSTY:
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