TANSY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TANSY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TANSY?
| 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 TANSY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TANSY
No single letter turns TANSY into another word.
How TANSY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TANSY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about TANSY
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TANSY mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A perennial plant of the daisy family with feathery, aromatic leaves and clusters of small, flat, button-like yellow flowers, formerly used in cooking and folk medicine.
Tansy grows wild across much of Europe and North America and gives off a strong, bitter smell that once made it a popular insect repellent and a flavouring for spring dishes eaten to mark the end of a household's stored winter food. A tansy itself became the name of a traditional dish made with eggs, cream and the bitter juice of the plant, a use that has almost entirely vanished from modern kitchens. Because several of its compounds are toxic in quantity, tansy is now known mainly as a wayside weed rather than a food, and modern cooks avoid it where earlier generations relied on it. Gardeners today grow tansy chiefly as an ornamental or companion plant valued for keeping pests away from vegetable beds.
How TANSY is used
Common in gardening and folk-history writing about traditional herbs, though rarely eaten today because of its toxicity in quantity.
- Yellow tansy flowers lined the edge of the old farm track.
- The recipe called for a handful of tansy to flavour the Easter pudding.
- Gardeners planted tansy near the vegetable beds to keep pests away.
- She dried tansy leaves for an old-fashioned remedy.
- A patch of wild tansy had taken over the abandoned field.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TANSY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TANSY
The 5 tiles of TANSY in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in TANSY
Common questions about TANSY
- Is TANSY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TANSY, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TANSY worth?
- TANSY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TANSY mean?
- A perennial plant of the daisy family with feathery, aromatic leaves and clusters of small, flat, button-like yellow flowers, formerly used in cooking and folk medicine.
- What letters can be added to TANSY?
- No single letter can be added to TANSY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TANSY:
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