PITCHY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. PITCHY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PITCHY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PITCHY is to know. It scores 16 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PITCHY
No single letter turns PITCHY into another word.
How PITCHY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in PITCHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What stands out about PITCHY
- PITCHY 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 PITCHY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Black or sticky like pitch, or smeared with it.
Writers use pitchy for a deep, thick darkness, as in a pitchy night with no moon. The older sense of something covered in sticky tar is rarer now. A singer may also be called pitchy for wandering off the note, though that use is informal.
How PITCHY is used
Mostly literary for darkness; informal in talk about singing.
- They stumbled through the pitchy dark of the cellar.
- The old boat was pitchy from many coats of tar.
- His voice turned pitchy on the high notes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PITCHY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PITCHY
Common questions about PITCHY
- Is PITCHY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PITCHY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PITCHY worth?
- PITCHY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PITCHY mean?
- Black or sticky like pitch, or smeared with it.
- What letters can be added to PITCHY?
- No single letter can be added to PITCHY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of PITCHY:
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