PUNY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. PUNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PUNY?
| 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 PUNY is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUNY
No single letter turns PUNY into another word.
How PUNY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in PUNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 40,846.
What does PUNY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Small and weak; feeble.
Puny came from a French phrase meaning born afterwards, so it first described a younger sibling and only later meant feeble. The legal term for a junior judge is the very same word.
How PUNY is used
Before and after the noun.
- A puny effort by any measure.
- The word puny once meant born afterwards.
- The seedlings looked puny and grew anyway.
- A legal term for a junior judge is the same word as puny.
- Puny meant younger before it meant weak.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words with PUNY inside
2 words contain PUNY in the middle. Words that start with PUNY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PUNY
Common questions about PUNY
- Is PUNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUNY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUNY worth?
- PUNY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUNY mean?
- Small and weak; feeble.
- What letters can be added to PUNY?
- No single letter can be added to PUNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of PUNY:
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