TENNY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TENNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TENNY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TENNY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TENNY
No single letter turns TENNY into another word.
How TENNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TENNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 2 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 34,855.
What does TENNY mean in Scrabble?
noun
heraldry
In heraldry, an orange-brown colour used as a stain on a coat of arms, also spelled tenne or tenné.
Heralds classify tenny among the rarer stains, a small group of colours used alongside the standard heraldic tinctures of red, blue, green, black, purple, gold and silver, and its appearance on a coat of arms was traditionally rarer and sometimes read as a mark of dishonour in older heraldic writing. The colour sits between orange and brown, and artists rendering a coat of arms in black and white mark tenny with a distinctive combination of diagonal and vertical hatching rather than the simpler patterns used for the main tinctures. Because stains such as tenny appear so rarely in real armorial bearings, the word is met mainly in heraldry manuals and historical discussions of blazoning rather than in ordinary descriptions of colour. The variant spelling tenné, closer to its French origin, appears just as often as tenny in specialist writing.
How TENNY is used
A technical heraldry term for an orange-brown stain, met mainly in manuals and historical writing on coats of arms.
- The old blazon described a border tinctured tenny.
- Heraldic artists shaded the field to represent tenny.
- The manuscript listed tenny among the rarer heraldic stains.
- A shield marked tenny once carried a hint of dishonour.
- The lecturer explained how tenny differs from ordinary orange in dyed cloth.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TENNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in TENNY
Common questions about TENNY
- Is TENNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TENNY, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TENNY worth?
- TENNY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TENNY mean?
- In heraldry, an orange-brown colour used as a stain on a coat of arms, also spelled tenne or tenné.
- What letters can be added to TENNY?
- No single letter can be added to TENNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TENNY:
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