STIVY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. STIVY 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 STIVY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STIVY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STIVY
No single letter turns STIVY into another word.
How STIVY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STIVY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does STIVY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Stuffy or close, of a room or the air in it.
English regional speech kept this word long after standard usage moved to a shorter, more familiar term for the same unpleasant heaviness. The related verb stive means to pack something tightly or to shut a place up so thoroughly that nothing inside it can move. Both words share one idea, that of things, or breath itself, being crammed into too small a space. An attic on a hot afternoon is the classic setting where a speaker might still call the air stivy.
How STIVY is used
Dialect, chiefly English regional speech; stuffy in standard usage.
- The parlour felt stivy with the windows shut all week.
- Open a window, the room has gone stivy.
- Nobody could work in such a stivy attic.
- The stivy heat of the cottage sent them outside.
- By evening the small hut was unbearably stivy.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STIVY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in STIVY
Common questions about STIVY
- Is STIVY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and STIVY is not in it.
- How many points is STIVY worth?
- STIVY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STIVY mean?
- Stuffy or close, of a room or the air in it.
- What letters can be added to STIVY?
- No single letter can be added to STIVY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STIVY:
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