STY is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. STY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STY is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
styeChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How STY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in STY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does STY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A pen where pigs are kept.
A separate sty is an infection on the eyelid, and the two words are unrelated: the eye one comes from an old term meaning to rise. The animal one is where the phrase about a room being like one comes from, and it is unfair to the animal.
How STY is used
Countable: a sty, two sties. The eye complaint is a separate word.
- The sty was cleaner than the kitchen and everybody said so.
- A sty on the eyelid clears in a week and feels longer.
- They built a new sty out of railway sleepers.
- Calling a bedroom a sty is a judgement about the occupant.
- A well-kept sty smells of straw and very little else.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with STY
Showing 24 of 128 words that begin with STY.
Words ending in STY
Showing 24 of 109 words that end in STY. Useful as a back hook: play STY onto a word already on the board.
Words with STY inside
Showing 24 of 132 words that contain STY somewhere in the middle. Words that start with STY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in STY
Common questions about STY
- Is STY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STY, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STY worth?
- STY is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STY mean?
- A pen where pigs are kept.
- What letters can be added to STY?
- STY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of STY:
Open STY in the Word Finder