TENTY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. TENTY 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 TENTY?
| 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 TENTY 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 TENTY
No single letter turns TENTY into another word.
How TENTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TENTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 34,855.
What does TENTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Scotsdialect
Watchful, attentive or careful, used in Scots dialect.
A tenty shepherd keeps a close eye on the flock and notices trouble before it grows serious, and Scots speakers use tenty for anyone who pays close, careful attention rather than acting carelessly. The word shares a root with attentive and intent, though it followed its own path in Scots vocabulary while the standard English forms developed separately. Older Scots dictionaries also record the closely related tentie as an equivalent form, and the two spellings appear interchangeably in regional writing. Tenty survives today mainly in Scots dialect literature and glossaries rather than in everyday conversation across the wider English-speaking world.
How TENTY is used
Scots dialect, used mainly in regional speech and writing for someone watchful or careful.
- Be tenty on the icy road tonight.
- The tenty collie watched the sheep without straying.
- Her grandmother warned her to stay tenty around strangers.
- A tenty clerk caught the error before it caused trouble.
- He grew more tenty after the near accident.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TENTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TENTY
The 5 tiles of TENTY in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in TENTY
1 words end in TENTY. Useful as a back hook: play TENTY onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in TENTY
Common questions about TENTY
- Is TENTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TENTY, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TENTY worth?
- TENTY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TENTY mean?
- Watchful, attentive or careful, used in Scots dialect.
- What letters can be added to TENTY?
- No single letter can be added to TENTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TENTY:
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