SPENDY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. SPENDY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPENDY?
| 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 SPENDY is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPENDY
No single letter turns SPENDY into another word.
How SPENDY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SPENDY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What stands out about SPENDY
- SPENDY 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 SPENDY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalNorth American
Costing a great deal of money; expensive.
Spendy is a casual way to say that something carries a high price, and it is heard in North American speech more than in formal writing. A shopper might call a restaurant, a pair of boots or a hotel spendy when the bill feels steep. It can also describe a person who spends freely, though that use is less common than the one about prices.
How SPENDY is used
Informal; mostly heard in North American speech and rarely used in formal writing.
- The new restaurant downtown is a bit spendy for a weeknight.
- Those hiking boots look spendy, but they last for years.
- We chose a spendy hotel near the beach for our anniversary.
- Coffee in the airport is always spendy.
- It felt spendy at the time, yet we never regretted buying it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPENDY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SPENDY
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Common questions about SPENDY
- Is SPENDY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPENDY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPENDY worth?
- SPENDY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPENDY mean?
- Costing a great deal of money; expensive.
- What letters can be added to SPENDY?
- No single letter can be added to SPENDY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SPENDY:
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