PRIVY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. PRIVY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PRIVY?
| 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 PRIVY 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 PRIVY
No single letter turns PRIVY into another word.
How PRIVY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PRIVY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does PRIVY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A toilet housed in a small outdoor building, typically without indoor plumbing.
A privy was the ordinary form of toilet before houses had running water and indoor bathrooms, usually a wooden shed set some distance from the house over a pit. The word is also used as an adjective meaning secretly informed of something, as in privy to a plan, though the noun sense naming the outdoor toilet is the older and more concrete meaning. Many farms and rural cottages kept a privy well into the twentieth century.
How PRIVY is used
Now mostly historical or used for comic or old-fashioned effect, since indoor plumbing replaced the outdoor privy in most places.
- The old farmhouse still had a privy at the bottom of the garden.
- Visitors to the museum can see a restored Victorian privy.
- Before plumbing arrived, every cottage relied on a privy out back.
- The privy door creaked in the wind all night.
- She remembered walking to the privy by lantern light as a child.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PRIVY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in PRIVY
Common questions about PRIVY
- Is PRIVY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PRIVY, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PRIVY worth?
- PRIVY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PRIVY mean?
- A toilet housed in a small outdoor building, typically without indoor plumbing.
- What letters can be added to PRIVY?
- No single letter can be added to PRIVY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PRIVY:
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