TEPOY is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. TEPOY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TEPOY?
| 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: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TEPOY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TEPOY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
tepoysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TEPOY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TEPOY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does TEPOY mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A small ornamental stand or table, usually with three legs, made to hold a tea caddy or a tea set; a variant spelling of teapoy.
A tepoy was a piece of furniture found in nineteenth-century drawing rooms, typically a compact three-legged table topped with a lidded box for storing tea leaves. The word came into English from a Hindi term for a three-legged stand, later blended by English speakers with the unrelated word tea because of how the object was used. Over time the piece grew from a simple caddy stand into a small side table, sometimes used for serving a whole tea set rather than just holding leaves. The word and the object are both now mostly historical, associated with furniture of an earlier era rather than modern homes.
How TEPOY is used
Historical; found mainly in writing about antique furniture and nineteenth-century household items.
- A polished tepoy stood beside the armchair in the parlour.
- The antique dealer priced the tepoy as a rare piece of colonial furniture.
- She kept her sewing box on the old tepoy by the window.
- The museum display included a carved tepoy from the period.
- Her grandmother's tepoy had been passed down for three generations.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TEPOY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TEPOY
1 longer words begin with TEPOY.
Shorter words from the letters in TEPOY
Common questions about TEPOY
- Is TEPOY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TEPOY, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TEPOY worth?
- TEPOY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TEPOY mean?
- A small ornamental stand or table, usually with three legs, made to hold a tea caddy or a tea set; a variant spelling of teapoy.
- What letters can be added to TEPOY?
- TEPOY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TEPOY:
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