TAWNY is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. TAWNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TAWNY?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TAWNY is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TAWNY
No single letter turns TAWNY into another word.
How TAWNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TAWNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does TAWNY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Of a brownish-orange or yellowish-brown colour, like that of a lion's coat or dried autumn leaves.
Tawny describes a warm, tan-like colour that sits between brown and orange, and it is used across a wide range of contexts from animal fur to drinks and light. A tawny owl and a tawny port both take their name from this same warm brown-orange shade, though the birds and the fortified wine have nothing else in common. The word derives from Old French tané, related to tanning leather, which produced a similarly warm brown colour. Painters and naturalists reach for tawny when plain brown feels too flat and orange feels too bright for the shade they mean.
How TAWNY is used
Common in descriptions of colour in nature, animals and certain drinks, used in both everyday and literary writing.
- The tawny owl called from the trees just after dusk.
- She poured a glass of tawny port after dinner.
- The lion's tawny coat blended into the dry grass.
- Autumn had turned the hillside a deep tawny colour.
- His tawny hair looked almost golden in the sunlight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TAWNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TAWNY
The 5 tiles of TAWNY in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in TAWNY
1 words end in TAWNY. Useful as a back hook: play TAWNY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in TAWNY
Common questions about TAWNY
- Is TAWNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TAWNY, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TAWNY worth?
- TAWNY is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TAWNY mean?
- Of a brownish-orange or yellowish-brown colour, like that of a lion's coat or dried autumn leaves.
- What letters can be added to TAWNY?
- No single letter can be added to TAWNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TAWNY:
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