STALKY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. STALKY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STALKY?
| 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 STALKY is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STALKY
No single letter turns STALKY into another word.
How STALKY scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in STALKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 689,845.
What stands out about STALKY
- STALKY 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 STALKY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Long, thin and upright, like a plant stem, or full of stems.
Stalky describes things that are tall and slender in the way a stem is, from a lanky person to a flower that has run up too high. It is also used for a plant that has grown more stem than leaf. The word is a plain descriptive one, formed by adding -y to stalk, and it rarely appears outside gardening and physical description.
How STALKY is used
Descriptive; used of plants, and sometimes of thin, long-limbed people.
- The seedlings grew pale and stalky on the dark shelf.
- He was a short stalky man in a brown hat.
- Lettuce turns stalky and bitter once it starts to flower.
- The stalky plants leaned over after the rain.
- A stalky teenager stood in the doorway.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STALKY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in STALKY
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Common questions about STALKY
- Is STALKY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STALKY, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STALKY worth?
- STALKY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STALKY mean?
- Long, thin and upright, like a plant stem, or full of stems.
- What letters can be added to STALKY?
- No single letter can be added to STALKY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of STALKY:
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