PITHY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. PITHY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PITHY?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PITHY is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PITHY
No single letter turns PITHY into another word.
How PITHY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PITHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does PITHY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Concise and forcefully expressive, packing meaning into very few words.
A pithy remark says exactly what needs to be said without wasted words, often landing with more force than a longer explanation would. The quality of being pithy is prized in proverbs, headlines and comebacks, where brevity itself sharpens the point being made. The word originally described the pith at the centre of a plant stem, the dense core substance, and the sense later shifted to language that is similarly dense with meaning and free of padding. A pithy style takes skill, since cutting a sentence down without losing its point is harder than simply writing at length.
How PITHY is used
Used approvingly of speech or writing that is short, direct and full of meaning.
- Her pithy reply ended the argument in one sentence.
- The critic was known for pithy, quotable reviews.
- He summed up the whole plan in one pithy line.
- The professor liked pithy answers rather than long essays.
- A pithy proverb often outlasts pages of explanation.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PITHY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words with PITHY inside
1 words contain PITHY in the middle. Words that start with PITHY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PITHY
Common questions about PITHY
- Is PITHY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PITHY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PITHY worth?
- PITHY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PITHY mean?
- Concise and forcefully expressive, packing meaning into very few words.
- What letters can be added to PITHY?
- No single letter can be added to PITHY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PITHY:
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