SHY is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SHY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SHY?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SHY is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 2.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SHY
Front hooks — 1
ashyBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How SHY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in SHY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,106.
What does SHY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Nervous in the company of other people.
Shy applies to animals and to things as readily as to people: a shy horse, a shy bidder, a plant shy of flowering. The unrelated verb meaning to throw survives in coconut shy, which is a fairground stall and has nothing to do with nerves.
How SHY is used
Before and after the noun. The comparative is shyer.
- He was shy at school and stopped being shy at thirty.
- A shy horse will not pass the same gate twice.
- The tree is shy of fruiting until it is ten years old.
- The coconut shy took more money than the rest of the fair.
- She is shy with strangers and impossible to quiet at home.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SHY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SHY
16 longer words begin with SHY.
Words ending in SHY
Showing 24 of 49 words that end in SHY. Useful as a back hook: play SHY onto a word already on the board.
Words with SHY inside
2 words contain SHY in the middle. Words that start with SHY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SHY
Common questions about SHY
- Is SHY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SHY, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SHY worth?
- SHY is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SHY mean?
- Nervous in the company of other people.
- What letters can be added to SHY?
- SHY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of SHY:
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