SHANNY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SHANNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHANNY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHANNY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHANNY
No single letter turns SHANNY into another word.
How SHANNY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SHANNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 551,876.
What stands out about SHANNY
- SHANNY gets by on a single vowel across 6 letters.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SHANNY mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A small greenish-brown fish of European rocky shores, better known as the smooth blenny.
The shanny lives in shallow water close to the coast and is a regular find in rock pools at low tide. It is a type of blenny with a smooth, scaleless body marked with darker spots. Anglers rarely want it, but children with nets often meet the shanny first among the pool creatures.
How SHANNY is used
Mostly a naturalist's word, used in guides to seashore life in Britain and Ireland.
- A shanny darted under the weed as the net came down.
- We counted three crabs and one shanny in the largest rock pool.
- The shanny is small enough to hide in a crack the width of a coin.
- She drew a shanny in her field notebook with its speckled flanks.
- Every shanny we caught was returned to the pool unharmed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHANNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SHANNY
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Common questions about SHANNY
- Is SHANNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHANNY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHANNY worth?
- SHANNY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHANNY mean?
- A small greenish-brown fish of European rocky shores, better known as the smooth blenny.
- What letters can be added to SHANNY?
- No single letter can be added to SHANNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SHANNY:
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