PUY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 8 points
It depends on the list you play by. PUY 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 8 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept PUY?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PUY is to know. It scores 8 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 2.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PUY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
puysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PUY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in PUY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,106.
What does PUY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small volcanic cone, especially in the Auvergne.
Puy is French, and the region it names is full of them: eighty or so cones standing in a line, none active now and all of them recent by geological standards. English took the word as a technical term, so it appears in geology far more often than in travel writing.
How PUY is used
Countable: a puy, two puys. Chiefly geological.
- The puy stands three hundred metres above the plateau.
- A chain of eighty puys runs north to south.
- The lentils are named after the town below the puy.
- Each puy erupted once and never again.
- The word puy is French and stayed technical in English.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PUY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PUY
The 3 tiles of PUY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PUY
1 longer words begin with PUY.
Words ending in PUY
1 words end in PUY. Useful as a back hook: play PUY onto a word already on the board.
Words with PUY inside
3 words contain PUY in the middle. Words that start with PUY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PUY
Common questions about PUY
- Is PUY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PUY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PUY worth?
- PUY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PUY mean?
- A small volcanic cone, especially in the Auvergne.
- What letters can be added to PUY?
- PUY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of PUY:
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