SAYST is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SAYST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SAYST?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SAYST is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SAYST
No single letter turns SAYST into another word.
How SAYST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SAYST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does SAYST mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To speak or declare, in the archaic thou-form heard in Shakespeare's "what sayst thou now".
Sayst belonged to a verb pattern in older English where thou took a matching verb ending, so a speaker would write thou sayst rather than the modern you say. It survives today only in scripture, older poetry, and writing that deliberately imitates archaic style. Modern English lost this distinction when thou fell out of use, and say became the same word for every subject. Readers usually meet sayst in quoted older texts rather than in anything written now.
How SAYST is used
Archaic; found in older texts and quotation rather than in current speech.
- Thou sayst the truth, and I believe thee.
- What sayst thou to this proposal, good sir.
- The old play has a line where sayst appears twice.
- He wrote sayst where a modern writer would put you say.
- The translator kept sayst to preserve the verse's old rhythm.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAYST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SAYST
The 5 tiles of SAYST in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SAYST
Common questions about SAYST
- Is SAYST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAYST, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAYST worth?
- SAYST is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAYST mean?
- To speak or declare, in the archaic thou-form heard in Shakespeare's "what sayst thou now".
- What letters can be added to SAYST?
- No single letter can be added to SAYST to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SAYST:
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