SHAYA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. SHAYA 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 SHAYA?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHAYA is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHAYA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
shayasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SHAYA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SHAYA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does SHAYA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
An Indian plant of the madder family whose root yields a red dye.
Shaya, also spelled chay or chaya, is a Tamil name for a climbing plant cultivated in India for the red dye extracted from its root, once used widely for dyeing cotton before synthetic dyes took over. Older accounts of Indian agriculture and textile trade describe shaya cultivation alongside indigo as a source of coloured cloth.
How SHAYA is used
Technical and historical use, mainly in writing about Indian dye plants.
- Weavers once relied on shaya root for a deep red dye.
- The botanist catalogued shaya among the madder family plants.
- Traders exported cloth coloured with shaya alongside indigo.
- Shaya plants were grown in small plots near the river.
- The old survey listed shaya as a minor dye crop.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHAYA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SHAYA
The 5 tiles of SHAYA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SHAYA
1 longer words begin with SHAYA.
Shorter words from the letters in SHAYA
Common questions about SHAYA
- Is SHAYA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SHAYA is not in it.
- How many points is SHAYA worth?
- SHAYA is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHAYA mean?
- An Indian plant of the madder family whose root yields a red dye.
- What letters can be added to SHAYA?
- SHAYA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SHAYA:
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