POTSY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. POTSY 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 POTSY?
| 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 POTSY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for POTSY
No single letter turns POTSY into another word.
How POTSY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in POTSY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What stands out about POTSY
- 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 POTSY mean in Scrabble?
noun
regionalNorth Americaninformal
In the New York City area and nearby eastern cities, a children's game similar to hopscotch; also the marker tossed and kicked across its chalked squares.
Potsy names the version of hopscotch long played on sidewalks in New York City and other eastern American cities, where children chalk numbered squares on the pavement and hop between them. The same word can also refer to the small object, often a crushed tin can, used as the marker that players toss onto the squares and retrieve while hopping. Potsy belongs to a family of regional hopscotch names across the English-speaking world, each tied to a particular city or neighbourhood. Outside that local tradition, most English speakers would recognise the game only as hopscotch.
How POTSY is used
Regional North American usage, chiefly associated with New York City street games rather than national English.
- The kids drew a potsy board in chalk on the sidewalk.
- She tossed the bottle cap onto square four to start the game of potsy.
- His grandmother remembered playing potsy on her Brooklyn street as a girl.
- Rules for potsy varied slightly from block to block in the old neighbourhood.
- They flattened a soda can to use as their potsy marker.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of POTSY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of POTSY
The 5 tiles of POTSY in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in POTSY
Common questions about POTSY
- Is POTSY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts POTSY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is POTSY worth?
- POTSY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does POTSY mean?
- In the New York City area and nearby eastern cities, a children's game similar to hopscotch; also the marker tossed and kicked across its chalked squares.
- What letters can be added to POTSY?
- No single letter can be added to POTSY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of POTSY:
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