PRATY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. PRATY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept PRATY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PRATY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PRATY
No single letter turns PRATY into another word.
How PRATY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PRATY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What stands out about PRATY
- 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 PRATY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Irishinformal
An Irish colloquial word for a potato, familiar from song and everyday speech.
Praty descends from the Irish word práta and has carried through generations of Irish English speech and song, most famously in ballads about the potato crop and the hardship that followed its failure. It carries a warmer, more homely tone than the plain word potato, the kind used at a family table rather than in a shop. Related spellings such as pratie turn up in older printed sources for the same food.
How PRATY is used
Informal Irish usage; a warmer, more local alternative to the plain word potato.
- She peeled a pile of praty for the Sunday dinner.
- The old song mourns the year the praty crop failed.
- He still calls a potato a praty the way his grandmother did.
- A praty and a bit of bacon was a common meal.
- The word praty comes from the Irish práta.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PRATY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PRATY
The 5 tiles of PRATY in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in PRATY
Common questions about PRATY
- Is PRATY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and PRATY is not in it.
- How many points is PRATY worth?
- PRATY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PRATY mean?
- An Irish colloquial word for a potato, familiar from song and everyday speech.
- What letters can be added to PRATY?
- No single letter can be added to PRATY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PRATY:
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