SPINNY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. SPINNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SPINNY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SPINNY is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SPINNY
No single letter turns SPINNY into another word.
How SPINNY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in SPINNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| i | 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 SPINNY
- SPINNY 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 SPINNY mean in Scrabble?
noun
rareBritish
A small wood or thicket of trees and undergrowth, usually fenced or tucked into a field corner.
Spinny is a spelling of the more familiar spinney and refers to the same thing: a modest patch of trees and brush that the countryside has kept rather than cleared. Such patches often shelter game birds and foxes, which is why they turn up so often in hunting and rural writing.
How SPINNY is used
Much rarer than spinney, which is the usual spelling in British English.
- The path ran along the hedge and vanished into a spinny of birch.
- Pheasants were reared in the spinny behind the farm.
- A fox slipped out of the spinny at dusk.
- They planted a spinny on the corner of the pasture to shelter the sheep.
- Bluebells covered the ground beneath the spinny every May.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SPINNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SPINNY
Common questions about SPINNY
- Is SPINNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SPINNY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SPINNY worth?
- SPINNY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SPINNY mean?
- A small wood or thicket of trees and undergrowth, usually fenced or tucked into a field corner.
- What letters can be added to SPINNY?
- No single letter can be added to SPINNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of SPINNY:
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