SENVY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. SENVY 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 11 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SENVY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SENVY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SENVY
No single letter turns SENVY into another word.
How SENVY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SENVY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does SENVY mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaic
An old word for mustard, the plant or the condiment made from its seeds.
Senvy comes down from an earlier English name for mustard and shows up only in historical or dialect texts today, having been replaced entirely by mustard in ordinary speech. Recipes and herbals from earlier centuries use senvy where a modern cookbook would simply write mustard.
How SENVY is used
Archaic; encountered in old herbals and recipes rather than modern writing.
- The old recipe called for a spoonful of ground senvy.
- Herbalists once grew senvy for both food and medicine.
- The manuscript listed senvy among the kitchen garden plants.
- He translated senvy as mustard for the modern reader.
- Fields of senvy once bordered the village lane.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SENVY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SENVY
Common questions about SENVY
- Is SENVY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SENVY is not in it.
- How many points is SENVY worth?
- SENVY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SENVY mean?
- An old word for mustard, the plant or the condiment made from its seeds.
- What letters can be added to SENVY?
- No single letter can be added to SENVY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SENVY:
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