TATTY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TATTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TATTY?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TATTY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TATTY
No single letter turns TATTY into another word.
How TATTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TATTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 3 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 209,132.
What does TATTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
informalBritish
Worn, shabby or in poor condition, used informally especially in British English.
A tatty coat has frayed seams and faded colour that mark it as old and neglected rather than merely used, and the word applies just as easily to buildings, furniture or whole neighbourhoods as to clothing. British speakers reach for tatty to criticise something as cheap-looking or run-down without necessarily meaning it is broken, so a tatty sofa may still be perfectly comfortable to sit on. A separate, older Anglo-Indian sense of tatty names a woven grass screen hung over a door or window and kept wet to cool the air passing through it, a meaning unrelated to shabbiness and now found mainly in older colonial writing. The everyday shabby sense remains by far the more common use of tatty today.
How TATTY is used
Informal British English, describing something worn or run-down; an unrelated older sense names a wet grass screen used for cooling rooms in colonial India.
- He wore a tatty old jumper around the house.
- The hotel lobby looked tatty and in need of repainting.
- She replaced the tatty curtains with new ones.
- The book's tatty cover barely held the pages together.
- They lived in a tatty flat above the shop.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TATTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TATTY
Common questions about TATTY
- Is TATTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TATTY, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TATTY worth?
- TATTY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TATTY mean?
- Worn, shabby or in poor condition, used informally especially in British English.
- What letters can be added to TATTY?
- No single letter can be added to TATTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TATTY:
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